The Dark Tower: Unraveling Stephen King's Mid-World
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Mar 17, 2026 · 47:42
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Mar 17, 2026 · 47:42
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We had so much fun revisiting Mid-World for this episode – it’s the first series that brought us together as book nerds twenty years ago, and it’s absolutely just as good as the first day we read it. So thankful it helped tie our friendship together, and laid the foundation for meeting all the rest of you Hugonauts all these years later!
The Dark Tower defies (or bridges) genres, with elements of sci-fi, fantasy, western, horror, and more, all rolled into one legendary package. And Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger, is an incredible main character, and we’ll never forget the rest of the Ka-Tet either. And the ending – we won’t spoil it here, but man do we like thinking about this ending (it’s one of the most polarizing in all of literature). You may be picking up on the fact that we kinda like these books.
As always, no spoilers until the end when we give a heads up before getting into the full plot discussion.
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