/lit/ - Literature

Can we discuss the Dark Tower series?

How bad are they gonna fuck up the movie?

>>8512729

In terms of sheer pages or hair pulls, I very much doubt it. However, there are several long series and at least one I would qualify as decent. I don't know of any that follow a serial path with any one character though. The more common modus operandi in science fiction is to imagine a universe with certain basic characteristics and then write separate novels or stories based in this sandbox but usually with different characters.

>The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
>The Vorkosigan series - Lois Bujold McMasters
>The Dune series - Frank and Brian Herbert

There are series that straddle the line between science fiction and fantasy, using the trope of a magical world that has supplanted a previous technological era.

>The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
>The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe

If you've got your heart set on following one character or storyline, I don't have much to offer. I tend to avoid such series since I gave up on Wheel of Time. If four books would do though...

>The Demon Princes - Jack Vance

Is there anything else with a similar sort of anachronistic dark fantasy setting as Steven King's "Dark Tower" series?