The gunslinger, which is the first in the dark tower series plays off in an alternate reality to earth withenough similarities to be able to compare it with a future earth. The world known as “Mid World”has some time ago “moved on” as referred throughout the entire series, no one really knows how orwhen this happened as even time itself has become forgotten. The world consists out of old westerntowns either abandoned or struggling to get along with little to no food or water, harsh wastelands,deserts, dead forests etc.
stretching across the world. This has been caused by droughts, exploitationof resources and even a wizard or two. The world has died. The story follows Roland Deschain, agunslinger trained in a small town before the world moved on. Roland’s quest is to find themysterious tower known as “The Dark Tower” as he believes the tower is the reason for his world”moving on” and if he can’t stop the tower, not only will his reality be destroyed but all realities,which includes Earth. The first book (The Gunslinger) sees Roland chase after the wizard that broughtgreat peril upon his family.
Roland also believes that this wizard knows more about the dark towerand thus he continues his deadly chase through a vast desert where he makes and loses friends.