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."(King, 2003, pg 95) 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 another version of Captain Trips from 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. Dave McKean did the illustrations in Wizard and Glass. The book was released by Grant on 4 November 1997, and is the fourth volume of the Dark Tower series. Wizard & Glass is the 39th book published by Stephen King it was his 33rd novel, and the 27th under his own name.
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