title: Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: The Journey Begins
author: Stephen King
description: Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Television (<st1:city u1:st="on">Babylon</st1:city> 5), film (Trancers), books (Star Trek: New Frontier series), and comic books (Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:placename u1:st="on">Dark</st1:placename> <st1:placetype u1:st="on">Tower</st1:placetype></st1:place>).
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  # Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands
  
  
  By King, Stephen
  
  
  ARGUMENT
  
  
  The Waste Lands is the third volume of a longer tale inspired by and to some
  
  
  degree dependent upon Robert Browning’s narrative poem “Childe Roland to the
  
  
  Dark Tower Came.”
  
  
  The first volume, The Gunslinger, tells how Roland, the last gun-slinger in a
  
  
  world which has “moved on,” pursues and finally catches the man in black, a
  
  
  sorcerer named Walter who falsely claimed the friendship of Roland’s father in
  
  
  the days when the unity of Mid-World still held. Catching this half-human
  
  
  spell-caster is not Roland’s ultimate goal but only another landmark along the
  
  
  road to the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, which stands at the nexus of
  
  
  time.
  
  
  Who, exactly, is Roland? What was his world like before it moved on? What is
  the
  
  
  Tower and why does he pursue it? We have only frag-mentary answers. Roland is
  
  
  clearly a land o