Carols books in Pluribus arent real, but I need them to be

In no world do I want the events of Pluribus to become a reality.

An extraterrestrial virus that turns the world’s population into a too-happy hive mind? No thank you, that sounds like it would be terrifying to experience. (It does, however, make for great TV.)

But there is one element of Pluribus that I would love to see come to life, and that is the series of books written by the world’s most miserable woman, Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn).

Carol writes a best-selling series called The Winds of Wycaro, which is described by a Barnes & Noble employee speaking over a PA system as “speculative historical romance literature.” A more accurate term in 2025’s book-selling landscape would probably be “romantasy,” but for Carol, it’s all just “mindless crap.”

Look, I haven’t read any of the Winds of Wycaro series. I’ve only heard the quick snippet Carol reads from her new release Bloodsong of Wycaro, which the Barnes & Noble employee hilariously calls “the fourth book in her Winds of Wycaro trilogy.” (Shout out to this unseen bookseller, comedic MVP of an otherwise very intense episode.) However, what I did hear about Winds of Wycaro sounded really fun.

Based on the snippets we get and the Bloodsong of Wycaro cover, it looks like the series is Brandon Sanderson mixed with Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. (To hammer that point home, Bloodsong is on the same shelf as the latter on bookshelves at the airport, and Carol’s partner Helen (Miriam Shor) makes sure to shift them around so Bloodsong of Wycaro is more visible.) The series takes place on purple sand seas, where formidable heroine Lucasia crosses paths with the handsome corsair Raban. Just the sound of his name sends Carol’s book tour audience into a frenzy, which means he’d do numbers on BookTok. Xaden from Fourth Wing, you’re done.

Carol bashes on both the book and her adoring fans, but that doesn’t deter me from wanting to give Winds of Wycaro a shot, if it were only real. I’m a sucker for a doorstopper fantasy novel, and it’s not every day you get to read a trilogy that has four whole books in it!

So please, Apple TV, if you need ideas for Pluribus merch, I’m telling you to gift viewers Winds of Wycaro. After all, you put out not one, but two tie-in books for Severance, even turning Ricken’s The You You Are into a reality. Surely a chapter or two of the Winds of Wycaro would be feasible. Or Vince Gilligan, if you’re reading this, why not make give those fictional book fans what they want and make a real-life movie? Just be sure you get ILM to do the slipsand. Think about it! And keep the wind at your back.

Pluribus is now streaming on Apple TV, with a new episode every Friday.