Night Surf

[Midten]

Personally I didn't think it was the great. But I'll have another read at it.

[larstriplj]

When The Stand first came out, the first thing I did was pull my copy of The Night Shift. I wanted to see if I was nuts, or if there really was as much of a similarity as I thought there was in the two.

Of course it's an unmistakable similarity. I've always called the virus in The Stand "Captain Trips" and I have always thought of Night Surf as an excerpt from The Stand. Of course I realize some of the details are different, but it could be that SK just wrote the short story first. (Many of the stories in The Night Shift were turned into books/movies.)

[GNTLGNT]

I sorta-kinda thought it was a test balloon, before jumping into "The Stand"...

[Breger3]

I sorta-kinda thought it was a test balloon, before jumping into "The Stand"...

I thought the same thing, that it was a trial run, or a test drive. It wasn't one of my favorite stories in this collection, but I LOVE The Stand, so it holds a special place in my heart.

[motocop]

For me it was the Stand "light", these people could have been in the Stand, Same circumstances, just another city. Capt. Tripps affected the whole world, so this story was just another town with some survivors in it. Nice extension to the stand though.

[JellybeanJay]

I just finished reading this and I have a question....

In this story they refer to Captain Tripps, is that the same or similar disease as in The Stand?

[motocop]

yeah same disease. They mention it started in Asia, but I dont remember that being said in the Stand. Maybe I just dont remember though.

[Breger3]

In the Stand it's leaked by the American Government, it was a warfare germ.