\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLooking back it\u2019s striking how period-specific Stephen King books were: Carrie was about the re-debut of fundamentalist Christianity in the culture AND PSI-enabled \u201cgifted children\u201d (the latter was also Firestarter); The Tommyknockers had a UFO MacGuffin; Cujo, Pet Sematary, and Children of the Corn were about yuppies from the \u201cdangerous\u201d city where you couldn\u2019t assume marriages were forever anymore going to rural small-town America and realizing you couldn\u2019t assume it was safe or wholesome either
oh yeah what was with all those psi power gifted kids books, I recall John Wyndham wrote a bunch of those
\nmy thirdhand impression was that this was the result of New Spiritualist woo hounds having kids and devising an elaborate mythology for why their kids were slightly weird. like changelings except I guess more positive because these were yuppies with one or two children they were obsessed with
\nI\u2019ve been waiting to see if the \u201cindigo child\u201d thing linked up with this memeplex at all but so far no takers. the whole subculture got eaten by the antivaxxer movement I think
\nas a child reading these books I confidently assumed they were geared towards me and the authors knew that 13 year olds love to read about other 13 year olds who can set things on fire with their minds
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there was some Stephen King novel I felt compelled to warn when we were doing book reports in gifted class cause there was a part for like 5 pages where his wife gives him a pretty sexy handjob with a bath mitt
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