# Firestarter

**Author(s):** Stephen King
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/firestarter/verdict.json
**Genres:** thriller, literary-fiction, horror, sci-fi, childrens
**Pages:** 403
**Publisher:** New American Library
**Published:** Sun Mar 18 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780451150318
**ISBN-10:** 0451150317
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/firestarter

## 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)

## SageChimp reader verdict

Firestarter has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/firestarter/verdict.json

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