History Literature / SongOfSusannah

* TemptingFate: Jake and Father Callahan, in New York City, 1999, hide Black Thirteen in a self-storage locker below the World Trade Center. They buy as much time as they can, setting its final opening for June 2002. Callahan is sure that someone can only get the sphere by breaking into it, but Jake points out that the locker could be smashed open if the building were to collapse. The World Trade Center would be destroyed by a terrorist attack in 2001.

* TemptingFate: Jake and Father Callahan, in New York City, 1999, hide Black Thirteen in a self-storage locker below the World Trade Center. They buy as much time as they can, setting its final opening time well into 2002. Callahan is sure that someone can only get the sphere by breaking into it, but Jake points out that the locker could be smashed open if the building were to collapse. The World Trade Center would be destroyed by a terrorist attack in 2001.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Black Thirteen is hidden in a storage locker in the basement of the World Trade Center in New York City in 1999. It's implied that it didn't survive the terrorist attack two years later.]]

* TemptingFate: Jake and Father Callahan, in New York City, 1999, hide Black Thirteen in a self-storage locker that they max the time out on. The locker, timing out well into 2002, is within the World Trade Center. While Callahan posits that only someone who breaks into the locker will get the sphere, Jake suggests that if the building collapses, someone could get it then. The World Trade Center would be destroyed by a terrorist attack in 2001.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Eddie remembers how his brother Henry thought that the personal computer race that started in the late 70s would crash my the mid-80s.

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Followed by ''Literature/TheDarkTower''.

''Song of Susannah'' is Book VI of Creator/StephenKing's [[DoorStopper Epic]] {{Fantasy}} series ''Franchise/TheDarkTower.'' Pressed for time, Callahan, Jake, and Oy are hot on Mia's trail as she manipulates Susannah into dimension-hopping to New York in the year 1999. Can they prevent Mia from giving birth to [[AntiChrist The Chap]] who will help his father, the [[OmnicidalManiac Crimson King]], [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Dark Tower]]?

* BadassBystander: John Cullum, a fairly ordinary store owner, gets mixed up in the shoot-out between Roland and Eddie, and Balazar's men. He sides with the ka-tet without just about any hesitation, helping them survive the ambush, providing them with transport, and inviting them to his home afterwards. Lastly, he points them in the direction of [[AuthorAvatar Stephen King]] when Eddie worries about not being on time to both talk to him and save Susannah, saving them a significant amount of time.
* BadGuyBar: The Dixie Pig is full with the [[BigBad Crimson King's]] soldiers.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Eddie remembers how his brother Henry though that the personal computer race that started in the late 70s would crash my the mid-80s.

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''Song of Susannah'' is Book VI of Creator/StephenKing's [[DoorStopper Epic]] {{Fantasy}} series ''Franchise/TheDarkTower.'' Pressed for time, Callahan, Jake, and Oy are hot on Mia's trail as she manipulates Susannah into going to New York in the year 1999. Can they prevent Mia from giving birth to [[AntiChrist The Chap]] who will help his father, [[OmnicidalManiac The Crimson King]], [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Dark Tower]]? Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, and end up meeting Stephen King himself.

* BadassBystander: John Cullum, a fairly ordinary store owner, gets mixed up in the shoot-out between Roland and Eddie, and Balazar's men. He sides with the ka-tet without just about any hesitation, helping them survive the ambush, providing them with transport, and inviting them to his home afterwards. Lastly, he points them in the direction of [[AuthorAvatar Stephen King]] when Eddie worries about not being on time to both talk to him and save Susannah, saving them a significant of time.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil
* AuthorAvatar: Right down to the name.
* BodyHorror
* DemonicPossession
* EvilMatriarch
* FetusTerrible
* SplitPersonality
* TheUndead
* ToServeMan

'''''Song of Susannah''''' is Book VI of Creator/StephenKing's [[DoorStopper Epic]] {{Fantasy}} series ''Franchise/TheDarkTower.'' Pressed for time, Callahan, Jake, and Oy are hot on Mia's trail as she manipulates Susannah into going to New York in the year 1999. Can they prevent Mia from giving birth to [[AntiChrist The Chap]] who will help his father, [[OmnicidalManiac The Crimson King]], [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Dark Tower]]? Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, and end up meeting Stephen King himself.

* TheJeeves: Nigel the robot behaves like a classic British butler.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Susannah never actually feels remorseful for blinding and ultimately killing Nigel the robot.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted. Susannah does feel bad for blinding Nigel the Robot.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Susannah never actually feels remorseful for blinding and ultimately killing Nigel the robot.