In King's new novel, Jake Epping, a Maine high school teacher, is slowly putting his life together after a divorce from his recovering alcoholic wife. Today, most of us have heard the term "butterfly effect." Or, as Stephen King puts it in 11/22/63, "Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?. rex travels to the past and back again, only to find that by accidentally stepping on a butterfly he has put into motion a chain of events that culminates in the election of a fascist president of the United States. In Ray Bradbury's seminal 1952 short story "A Sound of Thunder," a hunter with dreams of bagging a T. It's a question that has intrigued philosophers, historians and science-fiction writers for centuries: If you could travel back in time and stop a great atrocity, would you? Simple, right? If they thought it would prevent the Holocaust, who wouldn't jump at the chance to travel to early-1930s Germany and thwart Adolf Hitler?īut maybe it's not that simple. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title 11/22/63 Author Stephen King
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