{"id":253,"date":"2019-02-13T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/werkstatt.fuelthemes.net\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:23:57","slug":"stranger-things-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/stranger-things-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town news round-up and links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew! The announcement last week by Netflix<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>about my forthcoming Stranger Things<\/em><\/strong> Hopper prequel novel, Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em><\/strong>, seems to have drawn some interest! Which is, honestly, terrific – I’m so pleased the news is out, and I’m surprised (and very grateful!) that people seem pretty hyped about the book. Hooray!<\/p>\n

First up, the official synopsis is now online at Penguin Random House<\/a><\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show\u00a0Stranger Things.\u00a0<\/b><\/em>
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\nChristmas, Hawkins, 1984.<\/b>\u00a0All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper\u2019s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked \u201cNew York\u201d out of the basement\u2014and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does \u201cVietnam\u201d mean? And why has he never talked about New York?<\/em><\/p>\n

Although he\u2019d rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past, Hopper knows that he can\u2019t deny the truth any longer. And so begins the story of the incident in New York\u2014the last big case before everything changed\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Summer, New York City, 1977<\/b>. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Soon Hopper is undercover among New York\u2019s notorious street gangs. But just as he’s about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he\u2019s faced before.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Penguin Random House also has a set of pre-order links<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for US readers. For UK readers, you can find your links over at Penguin UK<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. I’ll be posting more about pre-orders soon.<\/p>\n

Secondly, there are far too many news links to list here, so below is just a selection of the main reports:<\/p>\n

The Verge<\/span><\/a> | CNet<\/a> <\/span>| Engadget<\/a> <\/span>| ComicBook.com<\/a><\/span> |\u00a0SlashFilm<\/a> <\/span>| Ars Technica<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SyFy Wire<\/a><\/span>\u00a0| Comic Book Resources<\/a><\/span> |\u00a0ET Canada<\/a><\/span> |\u00a0Superhero Hype<\/a><\/span>\u00a0| Screen Rant<\/a><\/span> | Dead Entertainment<\/a><\/span> | Netflix Life<\/a><\/span> |\u00a0Floor 8<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0mxdwn<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Pop Insider<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0LRM<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Library Journal<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Mental Floss<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Bleeding Cool<\/a><\/span> |\u00a0ScienceFiction.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Rolling Stone Brazil<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Bloody Disgusting<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, the eagle-eyed SDCC Unofficial Blog spotted that I was coming to San Diego Comic Con this year<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Which I am! More about that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phew! The announcement last week by Netflix\u00a0about my forthcoming Stranger Things Hopper prequel novel, Darkness on the Edge of Town, seems to have drawn some interest! Which is, honestly, terrific – I’m so pleased the news is out, and I’m surprised (and very grateful!) that people seem pretty hyped about the book. Hooray! First up,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,99],"tags":[96,97,95],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stranger-things","tag-darkness-on-the-edge-of-town","tag-netflix","tag-stranger-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamchristopher.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}