Polish cover of Caliban’s War featuring badass Martian Marine Bobbie Draper (2018) There is a lot to love about James S. A. Corey’s fully realized Expanse universe. It just might help you forget about how bad Star Wars has been derailed and make you fall in love again with sweeping space sagas that can deliver on what the sci-fi genre is capable of. We’re slowly making our way through the solar system with this series, which concludes with book 9 in 2020 or 2021. We’re in for the long haul though. This second entry brings us to Mars, and introduces a character that I love as much as the Rocina ..read more

Books we had a really hard time identifying with…or they were just complete garbage.                                                                                                                                               Source: Devianta ..read more

How we imagine Roland at the end. https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ep-76-the-dark-tower_final.mp3 We are finally here. We have crossed the lands of Mordor, braved the winter wastelands of Westeros, and survived Arrakis’s unforgiving and unending desert in a struggle to master fate itself and steer the course of the universe. WE NOW STAND BEFORE THE DARK TOWER. These other fictional worlds lie parallel in their own universes to Stephen King’s Dark Tower, in a metaphorical sense. They all in their own fashion represent the journey to the tower: to reach for the meaning of life ..read more

https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ep-75-song-of-susannah_final.mp3   The gunslingers just can’t catch a break. They face down insurmountable odds to save a town, but then Susannah goes off the deep end with the split personalities. Spoilers ahead. Wikipedia   ..read more

Illustration by Vincent Chong https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/book-talk-wolves-of-the-calla-final.mp3   In the quest for the Dark Tower, the gunslingers are drawn into a conflict where a town is being terrorized by wolves from the land of Thunderclap. Our heroes are reminded of the humanity they are fighting for and the terror that lies at the end of their journey. Spoilers ahead ..read more

Album art from Come-come-commala   https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/ep-74-wolves-of-the-calla-final.mp3 This is a mesmerizing entry into the Dark Tower series. Roland Deschain is asked to save a town from a horrible fate, and he can no more deny these people than forget the face of his father. There is an impending sense of doom and betrayal and more loss as the gunslingers must keep their own ka-tet from breaking as they face insurmountable odds against the emissaries of the Crimson King. Spoilers ahead. This amazing song about the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis transport ..read more

https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/reignfall-journey-to-the-dark-tower_final.mp3 Stephen King may be known for his horror novels, but over the span of his career he also shaped a very different type of story, one as ambitious and sprawling as the great fantasy epics of the 20th century. The Dark Tower series, now being adapted for film in 2017, follows the gunslinger, the last of a line of men who stood to defend a world that has moved on. He now wanders the lands of Mid World in search of the Dark Tower. We tackle this eight book series before the movie and TV series debut ..read more

The original ka-tet: Cuthbert, Roland and Alain  https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/ep-73-wizard-and-glass-final.mp3 This entry into the Dark Tower odyssey offers some of the most tense and fascinating exploits in Roland Deschain’s journey to the Dark Tower. It is in fact near the beginning of a journey that will span Roland’s lifetime  and it shows a boy in a trial to become a man. The game of Castles he plays with a band of desperadoes, a town hiding a mystery, his first love, and an unbreakable bond with his ka-tet — Cuthbert and Alain — make this one of my favorit ..read more

https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/reignfall-star-wars-aftermath-readers-hate-it-listeners-love-it_final.mp3 The Star Wars movie franchise is back and strong with the Force. So are the new “official” novels any good? Fans are divided, and it’s clear that the format of the book matters. Before Rogue One arrives in theaters, check out another band of rebels in “Star Wars: Aftermath” by Chuck Wendig laying the hurt on the Empire so that they can’t get back up ..read more

https://reignofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/reignfall-video-game-culture-in-books_final.mp3   Tron had its heyday. The future is the Oasis. We were inspired by Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One to discuss how both games and books are home to some of the best fiction anywhere ..read more