The world also has some other minor differences with the one (or more) known to Eddie, Jake and Susannah for instance, the Kansas City baseball team is the Monarchs (as opposed to the Royals), and Nozz-A-La is a popular soft drink. Louis 215, someone had slashed watch out for the walking dude", among others. Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin' Dude from The Stand on page 95, "Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve. The city is deserted, as this version of the world has been depopulated by the influenza of King's novel The Stand. The four gunslingers and Oy the billy-bumbler disembark at the Topeka railway station, which to their surprise is located in the Topeka, Kansas, of the 1980s. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles and short-circuits. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes. The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. Subtitled "Regard", it placed fourth in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel. It is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series, published in 1997. Wizard and Glass is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King.
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