The novel Stranger Issues: Flight of Icarus will give us a take a look at the lifetime of Eddie Munson two years earlier than Stranger Issues season 4
Followers of the Netflix collection Stranger Issues actually fell for the Eddie Munson character over the course of the present’s fourth season, and when he began enjoying Metallica on his guitar whereas within the Upside Down, it immediately ranked up there as one of the crucial iconic moments in all the collection. Sadly, Eddie didn’t make it out of the season alive… however we don’t know his complete story. Leisure Weekly acquired the unique first take a look at the duvet for an upcoming novel known as Stranger Issues: Flight of Icarus, which tells an Eddie Munson story that takes place two years earlier than the occasions of season 4. You possibly can check out the duvet on the backside of this text.
Penguin Random Home shall be publishing Stranger Issues: Flight of Icarus on Halloween, October thirty first. The novel was written by Caitlin Schneiderhan, who served as an assistant to Stranger Issues creators The Duffer Brothers throughout seasons 2 and three of the present, then joined the writing employees for season 4.
Stranger Issues: Flight of Icarus has the next description:
Hawkins, Indiana — for many, it’s merely one other idyllic, manicured all-American city. However for Eddie Munson it’s like dwelling in a perpetual Tomb of Horrors. Fortunately, he solely has just a few extra months to outlive at Hawkins Excessive. And what’s senior 12 months, actually, however simply killing time between Dungeons & Dragons periods with the Hellfire Membership and gigs together with his band?
It’s on the worst dive bar on the town that Eddie meets Paige, somebody who has pulled off a freaking miracle. She escaped Hawkins and constructed a wickedly cool life for herself working for a file producer out in Los Angeles. Not solely is she the definition of a badass — with a killer style in music — she could be the one individual that truly appreciates him because the bard he’s as a substitute of the satan incarnate. However the most effective factor? She’s providing an opportunity for him to make one thing of himself, and all he wants is to get her a demo tape of Corroded Coffin’s finest songs.
Only one drawback: Recording prices cash. Cash Eddie doesn’t have. However he’s prepared to do no matter it takes: even when meaning counting on his previous man, Al Munson. His dad simply stumbled again into his life, with one other doubtful scheme up his sleeve, and but Eddie is aware of that is his solely choice to make sufficient dough in sufficient time. It’s a threat, but when it pays off he’ll lastly have a one-way ticket out of Hawkins.
Eddie can really feel it: 1984 goes to be his 12 months.
Schneiderhan had this to say concerning the novel: “The Eddie Munson we meet in the beginning of Stranger Issues 4 is the protecting shepherd to the nerdy misplaced sheep of Hawkins Excessive. However taking over that mantle wasn’t such a cut-and-dry resolution. I’m so excited for followers to go along with him on his journey in direction of changing into a hero, to expertise the messy and uncomfortable choices that led him to develop into the courageous misfit everyone knows and love. Eddie is an individual who’s unfailingly, unapologetically himself, which is irresistible sufficient by itself. However add on the truth that he encourages the folks round him to be the identical? Who wouldn’t wish to be associates with that man? Assembly the characters from Eddie’s previous who — for higher or worse — had a component in shaping who he’s was one of the crucial rewarding elements of exploring this story, and I can’t await the followers to satisfy them, too! Eddie, that is for you!“
Does Stranger Issues: Flight of Icarus sound like a novel you wish to learn? Share your ideas on this one by leaving a remark under. For me, a few of the enchantment of Eddie Munson shall be misplaced on this guide, as it is going to be totally different than watching Joseph Quinn‘s efficiency because the character. However it may very well be fascinating to listen to (learn) his story.
