Title: Firestarter
First published: May 1998
Description: Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award.


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Also contained in:
[Ominbus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25080326W)
Subjects: Genetic Engineering, suspense, Fiction, Psychokinesis, Fire, Horror, Psychic ability, Science fiction, horror thriller, telekinesis, migraines, bleeding, pyrokinesis, hit men, Cherokees, Vietnam veterans, janitors, Rolling Stone, Fiction, horror, Horror tales, American Authors, Children, Testing laboratories, Psychokineses, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, media tie-in
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