REIGN of Books Podcast
By Josh and Jon
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Description
REIGN of Books is your entry into great narratives. Get a steady stream of SFF and other great written fiction. Discussions on our current reads, books-to-screen, publishing and more.
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CleanWe Come at Last to the End (EP. 76) | THE DARK TOWER (DARK TOWER #7) BY STEPHEN KING | 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 | 2/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOur Girl is in a Bad Spot (EP. 75) | SONG OF SUSANNAH (DARK TOWER #6) BY STEPHEN KING | 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. | 1/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrawing Battle Lines | Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King BOOK TALK | 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 | 1/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJustice at the End of the World (Ep. 74) | Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King | 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 | 1/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNFALL – Journey to the Dark Tower Movie | 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 f | 12/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLove, Loss and Exile (Ep. 73) | Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower #4) by Stephen King | 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 | 11/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Star Wars Aftermath – Readers Hate It, Listeners Love it | 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 ban | 11/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Video Game Culture in Books | 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. | 10/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDreams of a Better World – The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin BOOK TALK | Seriously good fantasy fiction ahead, light spoilers included. The end of the Earth is happening, again, and maybe for the final time. Some humans, who are more than human, are realizing they may have the power to change their planet’s | 10/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Lifetime of Running, Then a Revolution (Ep. 72) | The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin | The humans of this world carry so much pain and sorrow with them. They are under perpetual threat of death by their own planet and must take on a resilience to survive threats that upend whole parts of the world. Yet there is hope, and it | 10/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGritty Good Fun | Star Wars: Aftermath Life Debt by Chuck Wendig BOOK TALK | Does it keep with the Star Wars spirit? Yes. Is it Empire Strikes Back good? No, but it could have been. Han is still a scoundrel, the new crew earns their keep, and the intrigue with the empire continues. But there are missed opportunities | 9/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGalaxy Questing (Ep. 71) | Star Wars Aftermath Life Debt by Chuck Wendig | Some Star Wars movie regulars get into the action and we see what war on a planetary scale looks like (kind of). Solid entry into the galaxy far, far away. | 9/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReimagining Human Reality (Ep. 70) | Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is essential science fiction reading; one of the most brilliant pieces of fiction we have ever read. It imagines our future by peeking just around the corner and showing how one new piece of technology could | 8/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSoldiers We Leave Behind (Ep. 69) | The Forever War by John Haldeman | This sci-fi classic examines the trauma of war and how in the future, to ensure humankind’s survival, some soldiers must sacrifice almost all of their connections to the species. | 7/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKids Combat Evil (Eps. 67-68) | Summer of Night by Dan Simmons | Dan Simmons, as we’ve noted, is a genius. This is his first horror novel we’ve picked up. There are nods to Stephen King’s “It” and vibes of “Poltergeist,” but this story is wholly its own. It’ | 7/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFeel Good Fantasy (Eps. 65-66) | The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks | OK, this tale has some teeth. Even though I was face palming during the first two thirds because it followed Frodo and Sam’s playbook almost exactly, there’s a great world to explore and some exciting action that make the latter | 2/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Scary Freedomless Society (Ep. 63-64) | The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood in many ways can be compared to George Orwell’s classic novel 1984. While the world of 1984 felt like a dystopian relic when I read it (albeit an especially scary, fascist dystopian relic), The Handmaid | 1/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBOOK TALK: Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne | It’s no Walking Dead, but the high-octane action, death-defying escapes and survivalist tips make for a fun romp through zombie land, doubling as a user’s manual to the apocalypse. | 1/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Kindle Unlimited vs. The Library | We discuss topics in written fiction in our REIGNfall series. This week, we talk about two sources for borrowing books. Which one is better? We debate. Kind of. | 1/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMake ’em Bleed (Ep. 62) | Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne | There’s no shortage of choices in the zombie genre in print or on screen. This yarn takes the best of the genre – ethically impossible choices, scavenging 101, bandits and harrowing scrapes with the dead – to weave together a fun if not | 12/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNo Jedi, No Problem (Ep. 61) | Star Wars Aftermath by Chuck Wendig (pt2/finale) | This new official post-RotJ (Return of the Jedi) tale is full of likable characters, a galaxy in flux, and a fun new robot that almost makes up for its clumsy battle droid cousins. | 12/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Galaxy We Love (Ep. 60) | Star Wars Aftermath by Chuck Wendig (pt1) | New official Star Wars story. High expectations. Here we go. | 11/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Flat Sci-Fi Parody (Ep. 59) | Redshirts by John Scalzi | This is a lifeless Star Trek parody that takes nihilism to the extreme. It’s not without its laughs, but it ends up being a hollow sermon on how life is what you make of it. | 11/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFight to the Bitter End (Ep. 58) | The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (pt2/finale) | The Dragon Reborn expands the mythology of the Wheel of Time series and its protagonists face increasingly powerful foes and dangers from every direction. | 11/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Fellowship Divided (Ep. 57) | The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (pt1) | “For the world has grown full of peril. And in all lands, love is now mingled with grief.” This line is from the fantasy epic Lord of the Rings movie, but it beautifully portrays the sense of urgency and import in the third entry of Robert Jor | 10/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBOOK TALK: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin | Brace yourself for aftershocks with this one. This world’s culture and geography will rock you. Spoilers galore. | 10/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThis Story’s Aftershocks are Hard to Shake (Ep. 56) | Reign of Books Podcast is a discussion of our current reads and includes spoilers galore. Check out Book Talks in menu for short spoilercast on the book. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (pt2/finale), Ep. 56 The price of admission is well worth it, wi | 10/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Irresponsible vs. Responsible Characters | Welcome to REIGNfall, our weekly series on book topics where we talk fiction and ponder the world of storytelling. Sinking ships, space karate, chosen ones and much more. We love our fictional characters. They enthrall us with their adventures (or misad | 10/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Unstable World that Breeds Fear (Ep. 55) | Reign of Books Podcast is a discussion of our current reads and includes spoilers galore. Check out Book Talks in menu for short spoilercast on the book. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (pt1), Ep. 55 The Earth breaks frequently, and with de | 10/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Audiobook Delights | Welcome to REIGNfall, our weekly series on book topics where we talk fiction and ponder the world of storytelling. We’re talking about Audiobook delights in this show. Audiobooks have a kind of sweet, long-lasting flavor. We just had a knockdown, dra | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Paper vs Ebooks (A Kinda Mature Debate) | Welcome to REIGNfall, our weekly series on book topics where we talk fiction and ponder the world of storytelling. Listen: The age old debate of “paper or digital” rages on. Lots of emotions come out in this discussion. Feelings get hurt. But | 9/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLast Humans Survive Outerspace and Each Other | Seveneves by Neal Stephenson BOOK TALK | REIGN Book Talks – We highlight our book reads and share what made us fans of the story. (aka spoiler cliffnotes) In Seveneves, Stephenson addresses how to keep a planet calm when the end is near (he alludes to lots of couplings), he immerses us in | 9/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN 54 – Space As You’ve Never Seen It (Seveneves, pt2/finale) | Every part of this story rises to the occasion – from the intimate and personal decisions of the characters to the larger geopolitical struggle to execute the space mission to the daunting reality of life in the cold bleak wasteland that is outer sp | 9/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – How quickly should a book series come to market? | Welcome to REIGNfall, our weekly series on book topics where we talk fiction and ponder the world of storytelling. In this episode we’re talking about book series and how slow (or quickly) it takes for them to be completed and come to market. What’s | 9/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN53 – The Sky is Falling (Seveneves, pt1) | Seveneves is one of the most amazing, audacious and mesmerizing pieces of fiction I’ve ever read. Period. In the face of an extinction-level event, do we have what it takes to save the species? With current 21st century technology, we’re about to fi | 9/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Game-to-Book Adaptations; Are They Worth the Read? | Welcome to REIGNfall, our weekly series on book topics where we talk fiction and ponder the world of storytelling. We know movie adaptations of games are pretty much disasters. Just look at Super Mario Brothers. Not even John Leguizamo could save that m | 8/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep52: Standing Against Titans (Bitter Seeds pt2, finale) | The characters are changed by the war and it’s a reflection of the devastation that years of conflict cause. British soldier Raybould Marsh and Warlock William Beauclark make comprises that cause innocent people to be killed. They are continually face | 8/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep51: The High Cost of War (Bitter Seeds, pt1) | These are the European book covers – blame the marketers. The book is serious subject matter… Bitter Seeds is a vivid reminder of Great Britain’s brave men and women during WWII as they held the line in Europe. But in this sweeping alter | 8/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Bad Book Titles | Welcome to REIGNfall, our weekly series on book topics where we talk fiction and ponder the world of storytelling. Books are judged by their covers. But we take their titles to task. We find some pretty bad book names, and talk about just how mediocr | 8/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGNfall – Book Covers Matter | Weekly book topics on fiction of all shapes and sizes. Book covers are like a gateway into great stories. They become intertwined with the experience of any great tale and can instantly transport you back into what you loved most about the story. So we | 7/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 50 – Bunkers, Insane Trains and Death (The Wastelands pt2/finale, Dark Tower series book3) | Listen to Episode: I want to focus on Roland now. Many unanswered questions remain about this gunslinger and his mysterious past. The world has moved on, but this hard-as-nails cowboy continues to travel the long miles of its wastelands, in search of ho | 7/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 49: Welcome to the Rest of Your Life (The Wastelands pt1; Dark Tower series book3) | Listen to Episode Roland has the toughest luck. He’s been chasing the Dark Tower for years, decades, centuries even? He’s had to suffer and endure seeing the collapse of his civilization, losing all his friends, and wandering the scorched Earth tryi | 7/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 48 – There’s Only So Much I Can Do (The Martian, part 2, finale) | Listen to Episode: This book is “Castaway” for the space age. It’s a story of struggle and survival on a hostile world that astronaut Mark Watney is forced to make his home. A spoiler free(ish) video review is here: Man vs. Mars | T | 7/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 47 – The MacGyver of Mars (The Martian pt1) | Listen to Episode: This book is stunning. You read the first-hand account of astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded on Mars alone with no means of communication with Earth or hope of escape. It would take years for a rescue mission to arrive. His surv | 6/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 35 – Confronting Evil Head On (The Great Hunt, WOT book 2, pt3) | Listen to Episode: The conclusion to the Great Hunt was impressive with its grand stage setting and gripping confrontations. The story feels urgent with the odds seemly stacked against our group, which now faces powerful ageless forces separately a | 10/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 34 – Let’s Just Survive This in One Piece (The Great Hunt, WOT book 2, pt2) | Listen to Episode: (Spoiler-light) The wielding of an uncontrollable power takes Rand down a dangerous path, where many will seek to either use or destroy him. The group of friends from the Two Rivers are forced to separate and each of their journe | 10/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 33 – Get Your Hunt On (The Great Hunt, WOT book 2, pt1) | Listen to Episode: The Great Hunt, book two in the Hugo-nominated Wheel of Time series, picks up right where the first book left off. This presents a rich exploration of the characters’ conflicts and motivations that each must face in this next leg | 9/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 32 – I Guessed the Ending, But Who Cares (Diablo, The Sin War Book1, pt2, finale) | Listen to Episode: My buddy Jon put the question out there: Should we even finish this book? I voted yes because 1- I thought, against all hope, it might get better and 2- we couldn’t legitimately warn people away from it if we didn’t f | 9/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 31 – Fantasy That Fizzles Bad (Diablo, The Sin War Book 1, pt1) | Listen to Episode: Uldyssian is the hero, I think, and his friends are trying to help him, we think. The women seemingly have nothing more to do than be mysterious or fawn over him. The story goes from point A to point B, introduces some characters | 9/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 30 – Choose Again (Rise of Endymion, pt3, finale) | Listen to Episode: The fate of life, free will, a higher level of existence and harmony with the universe is pared down to these two simple words: Choose Again. The finale to Dan Simmons’ science fiction masterwork is shocking, poignant and o | 9/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 29 – A Lifetime of Adventure and Love (Rise of Endymion, pt2) | Listen to Episode: Our characters are perpetual nomads, refugees with no home, but they are guided by a strong sense of destiny that takes them across half the populated galaxy, again. The worlds are simply amazing and we are given this deep experi | 8/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 28 – Unexpected Path to Destiny (Rise of Endymion, pt1) | Listen to Episode: This is the finale to the Hyperion series. It’s a bittersweet realization to see this epic saga end knowing that these characters will leave us forever. But it’s also an exciting prospect to see this masterwork wrappe | 8/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 27 – Planet Hopping is Hard Work (Endymion, pt3) | Listen to Episode: This is the conclusion to our 3-part book discussion on Endymion, the epic 3rd entry in Dan Simmons’s Hyperion Cantos. The journey in the book is quite simply stunning – the water world of Mare Infinitus had me in Jaws-panic | 8/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 26 – A Game of Space Cat and Mouse (Endymion, pt2) | Listen to Episode: What do you do when you’re outgunned, outnumbered, and have slim chance of escape? What we can say, without spoiling, is that Aenea, the time-traveling 12-year-old messiah, is quite the poker player. Listen to the REIGN spo | 8/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 25 – In the Future, Everything Old is New Again (Endymion, pt1) | Listen to Episode: Raul is a hero I can get behind. He lives a rugged life on Hyperion, never staying in one place too long and surviving how he can as a third-class citizen on his native world. He’s confident in his own abilities, but has no prospe | 8/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 24 – Master Chief Stumbles, Keyes Takes Center Stage (Halo – The Fall of Reach pt2) | Listen to Episode: Master Chief’s book debut is filled with action and intense confrontations, but the narrative only gets interesting when his comrades are battling in space. Master Chief is sidelined to procedural missions mostly on the gro | 7/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 23 – Space Battles Are Where It’s At (Halo – The Fall of Reach pt1) | Listen to Episode: Halo, one of video game history’s defining science fiction war epics, comes to the written page. Can it muster the same emotional resonance that the gameplay inspired in a generation? Well, if you like your military cliches | 7/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 22 – The End of the Beginning (The Gunslinger pt2) | Listen to Episode: This is only the end of the beginning, and it’s an incredible beginning. We are rewarded with answers to what the Dark Tower is, but we are left with a grand epic stretched out before us. I for one will follow the gunslinge | 7/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 21: It’s a Trap! (The Gunslinger pt1) | Listen to Episode: The Gunslinger is a fascinating spectacle – rich characters, bleak landscapes, unknown forces of evil, and the gunslinger surviving the wilderness to track down the man in black. There’s a lot to sink your teeth into, and th | 7/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 20 – How Not to Build Planets (Myst – The Book of Atrus pt2) | Listen to Episode This book is a coming of age story – a young boy has unfathomable burdens placed upon him as he steers the course of worlds and stands up against a would-be tyrant. His bravery comes at a high cost and he is willing to sacri | 6/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN Ep. 19 – Survival of the Fittest (Myst – The Book of Atrus pt1) | Listen to Episode This story really pulled me in. It starts as a story of pure survival. A boy and his grandmother live in the desert under the shadow of a volcano. All alone, their small cleft gives them shelter and a place to grow food. The boy Atru | 6/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Eye of the World (pt4) BOOK TRAILER | Listen to the funny. No spoilers here. The light and dark go at. It’s a battle royale. Listen to part four of the podcast for the blow by blow. | 6/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 18: Light at the End of the Tunnel (The Eye of the World pt4) | Listen to Episode: It takes a certain brilliance to breathe life into a world, to make its lands and people and cultures memorable, unique. Creating histories and a sense of authenticity, not for just a region, but a planet, takes dedication. But | 6/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Eye of the World (pt3) BOOK TRAILER | Listen to the almost spoiler-free book trailer: Destiny people, it’s destiny. We get on the fate train and find out if our rag-tag group of heroes-in-training want to do this. | 6/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 17: Darkness Descends (The Eye of the World pt3) | Listen to Episode: In part 3 of 4 of The Eye of the World, there is no doubt that fate is weaving itself around Rand and his friends – they will help determine the outcome for all of humanity. Will mankind splinter in this coming war? Will Mora | 6/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Eye of the World (pt2) BOOK TRAILER | Book Trailer – The Eye of the World pt.2 The wheel weaves as the wheel wills in the Eye of the World. As the journey continues, you’ll encounter creepy abandoned cities, play sharks and minnows with some Trollocs, and get freaked out by the St | 5/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 16: Run for Your Life (The Eye of the World pt2) | Listen to Episode: Savagely pursued. Relentlessly hunted. At the brink of doom and despair. Perrin and Egwene take the starring role midway through The Eye of the World. An unlikely ally rescues them in the wild and pulls them ahead of the dark forces | 5/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Eye of the World (pt1) BOOK TRAILER | “Book Trailer”…it’s totally funny Prepare for the very first chapters of Book 1… of a 14 Book series… written over 23 years… by two authors… and hailed by legions of fans as some of the best fantasy e | 5/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 15: Building and Breaking the World (The Eye of the World pt1) | Listen to Episode: It is a wild ride with our entry into the Wheel of Time series. This is a respected and long enduring fantasy series (14 books written over 23 years) that has been compared to the Lord of the Rings for its ambitious and r | 5/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 14: Conan Fights Wizards, Worse Wizards and, of course, Monsters (Robert E. Howard) | Listen to Podcast: Conan offers a raw, primal experience with incredible stories that rush at you with reckless abandon, even almost a century after Conan was first unleashed on Hyboria. The warrior’s battles and epic escapes from warl | 5/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 13: Humanity’s Second Chance (Fall of Hyperion pt. 3) | Listen to Episode: Verdict: 5 of 5 stars Tweet Review: Gods at war, courage of warriors and poets, betrayal of machines, woman from the future and a pilgrimage; all lead to a new humanity. This book forever changed the way I read science fiction. | 5/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 12: Chaos in the Cantos (Fall of Hyperion pt. 2) | Listen to Episode: I continue to be amazed at the complexity of the Hyperion universe. It is some of the best sci-fi I’ve come across. The insanely strong narrative continues in the second book of the series – Fall of Hyperion. I loved the fi | 4/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 11: Pilgrims’ Progress (Fall of Hyperion pt. 1) | Listen to Episode: What would you do on the last day of your life? What if the world as you knew it was about to end? Nope, this isn’t a zombie apocalypse. It’s the Fall of Hyperion, an action-packed and deeply meditative tale of mankind confr | 4/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 10: In the Abyss, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (H.G. Wells) | Listen to Episode: We dive into some classic turn-of-the-century sci-fi from H.G. Wells, who helped define the genre. It’s impressive how Wells takes the ordinary things that surround us and turns them into tense terrifying mysteries. The tales are | 4/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 9: The World is Not as It Seems (Hyperion pt3) | Listen to Episode: Verdict: Hyperion is one of those rare pieces of fiction that transcends mere storytelling. It is epically crafted and its ensemble cast of characters are wonderfully deep, complex people who bare their souls through the journey. It i | 4/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 8: City of the Dead and Time Tripping (Hyperion pt2) | Listen to Episode: The Hyperion Cantos It was not about the planet but about the passing of the self-styled Titans called humans. It was about the unthinking hubris of a race which dared to murder its homeworld through sheer carelessness and then carrie | 3/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 7: As Good as it Gets (Hyperion pt1) | Listen to Episode: Hyperion is insanely good. It’s thought provoking, fast paced, mysterious and engrossing from page one. Don’t miss this ride if you are a true scifi fan. Dan Simmons‘ Hugo Award-Winning Novel is a masterful read | 3/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 6: Stuck on the War Front with Half a Book (Leviathan pt3) | Listen to the Episode Verdict: If you like great action and inventive alternate realities, you get an appetizer in this book, but outside some fun battles, there is no resolution to major plot points, which are pushed off to a second book. With no payof | 3/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 5: The Realities of War (Leviathan pt2) | PART 1 PART 2 Listen to the Episode: Things get tricky on the war front! | 3/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 4: Sprinting Robots, Flying Whales and Talking Lizards, Oh My! (Leviathan pt1) | Listen to the Episode: Scott Westerfield creates a revisionist history of World War I with robots versus genetically engineered beasties. Things get crazy as our two title characters, on the opposite side of the conflict, are thrown into new roles that | 2/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 3: Finally, the Ocean Arrives (The Ocean at the End of the Lane pt3) | Listen to the Episode: The Ocean comes and makes a lasting impression; we get a glimpse of a marvelously different world, and a tragedy has lasting consequences. | 2/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 2: Tragedy of Shakespearian Proportions (The Ocean at the End of the Lane pt2) | Listen to Episode: A family implodes when a father commits an unforgivable act, a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse unfolds in the countryside, and the unbelievable rise and fall of the arch villian is shockingly emotional and poetic. The middle part of T | 2/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanREIGN of Books Ep. 1: Fight Evil in the Countryside (The Ocean at the End of the Lane pt1) | Listen to the Episode: So it begins. The REIGN of Books Podcast ep. 1 explores an atypical story of a boy and girl, fighting against an ancient evil that pays a visit to the English countryside. Unlikely events bring them together and the boy discover | 2/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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