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The Waste Lands

Stephen King

Roland’s quest gathers a fuller ka-tet as time fractures, ruins close in, and a riddling train blocks the way.

First published 1992 · The Dark Tower

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Months after the earlier volume, Roland travels with Eddie and Susannah while grappling with a paradox that has split memory and reality. The group must recover Jake and bring him across worlds so the ka-tet can continue toward the Dark Tower.

Their path takes them through dangerous, decayed places and into encounters with monsters, broken technology, and hostile human factions. As the journey widens, the group grows stronger even as the world around them feels more unstable and haunted.

The second half turns toward Lud, a ruined city filled with danger and strange remnants of a fallen civilization. To escape, the group must deal with Blaine the Mono, an unstable riddling train, and the novel ends with the quest still unresolved.

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Authors
Stephen King
First published
1992
Genres
Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure, Westerns, Thriller, Post Apocalyptic
Subjects
thrillers · supernatural · dark fantasy · riddles · monorails · artificial intelligence · Velcro Fly · paradoxes · ka-tet · cyborgs · Fiction · Fantasy fiction · Long Now Manual for Civilization · Fantasy · Dark Tower Series · Roland (Fictitious character : King) · Fiction, fantasy, epic · Dark tower (imaginary place), fiction · Roland (fictitious character : king), fiction · American literature · Roland of Gilead (Fictitious character) · Fantastic fiction · Fiction, fantasy, general · Time travel · Magic · Voyages dans le temps · Romans, nouvelles · Chang pian xiao shuo · Science fiction, fantasy, horror · Romance · Horror fiction · Literatura norte-americana · Roland (Fictitious character)
ISBN-13
9780670032563

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