Under the Dome (novel)

Under the Dome
First edition cover
AuthorStephen King
GenreScience fiction, political
PublisherScribner
Publication date
November 10, 2009
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages1,074
ISBN978-1-4391-4850-1

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King. It is the 58th book published by King, and it is his 48th novel. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible glass dome-like barrier that seemingly falls out of the sky, transforming the community into a domed city.