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On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener s hand is severed as the dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn t just short. It s running out.　　2012过后的某一年，10月21日上午11点44分，一个巨大的透明穹顶从天而降，将缅因小城切斯特磨坊镇罩在底下，有些不巧处于穹顶边缘的人和动物被当场砸死，刚刚上天的飞机也被撞烂。穹顶宛如倒扣的玻璃鱼缸，将小镇与外面的世界隔绝开来。面对这天降横祸，镇民们分成了两派，一方努力寻找灾祸的根源，另一方却想趁机完全控制镇子。殊不知，就在小镇内部激烈斗争的时候，穹顶之外出现了更强大的力量，在这种力量面前，所有人的生命，不过是渺小的蝼蚁。