Bookburners

Magic is real. And it’s dangerous. It’s locked in books and relics imbued with power. But sometimes, whether by accident or by design, magic escapes and wreaks havoc upon the world. That’s when Team Three is deployed—known by their enemies as: The Bookburners.


Tasked with identifying and neutralizing magical threats anywhere in the world, the Bookburners are a cohort of special investigators from wildly different walks of life—a New York City detective, a Guatemalan priest, an indestructible woman from China, a techno-occultist from Ireland, and an inquisitive scholar from the Ivory Coast.


But each member of the Bookburners bears the scars of their own past magical trauma. What that means for the team, as they face horrors that threaten their sanity and their very lives, will cause them each to question their mission… and their faith in one another.


Bookburners is a Realm production voiced by Xe Sands, created by Max Gladstone, and written by Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Amal El-Mohtar, Mur Lafferty, Andrea Phillips, and Brian Francis Slattery. Listen away.

Fiction
Drama
1
Introducing Chinook
Religion and crime collide when a gruesome murder rocks the isolated community of Chinook, Montana.
40 min
2
S5 E12 - The End of the Beginning, Part 2
Asanti plants the Seed to create a new foundation, and the Bookburners return to a world irrevocably changed.
48 min
3
S5 E11 - The End of the Beginning, Part 1
Having reached the Garden at last, Team Three battles Wang for the future of the world.
43 min
4
S5 E10 - All the Way Down, Part 2
Perry makes the only choice possible.
38 min
5
S5 E9 - All the Way Down, Part 1
The team arrives at the hole in reality that Asanti thinks they can use to get to the Garden of Eden…where Perry is waiting at the border.
37 min
6
S5 E8 - The End of Time, Part 2
Asanti undertakes a ritual to revive Grace, and Grace sees what Wang’s victory would look like.
39 min
7
S5 E7 - The End of Time, Part 1
Holed up in the Maitresse’s house and with no more avenues to pursue, the team goes through a long dark night of the soul.
37 min
8
S5 E6 - Ouroboros Interrupted, Part 2
Grace battles Wang as her candle burns down to nothing, and the fight disturbs the dragon within the volcano.
33 min
9
S5 E5 - Ouroboros Interrupted, Part 1
The team travels to the Icelandic volcano Hekla, formerly known as the “gateway to hell.”
32 min
10
S5 E4 - The Fall of Rome, Part 2
At the council, Asanti gives her pitch before the assembled dignitaries and repre-sentatives of the magical community, but Wang has other ideas.
44 min
11
S5 E3 - The Fall of Rome, Part 1
Sal tries to convince Grace to take Asanti’s cure while Asanti teaches Shah, Wang, and the other assembled fighters a trick with which they might be able to slow down the Hannah’s Wreckers.
43 min
12
S5 E2 - Lights Out, Part 2
The Bookburners arrive in Rome to find Frances and Perry already there. Asanti may have a possible cure for Grace, but Grace may not survive the process.
28 min
13
S5 E1 - Lights Out, Part 1
The first Wrecker appears, and after a futile fight, the Bookburners escape from Alexandria. It soon becomes clear that the Wreckers are attacking all over. The world is being dismantled.
34 min
14
Introducing Undertow: Narcosis
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18 min
15
S4 E20 - Alexandria Leaving, Part 2
The Engströms have been gathering power, and Team Three may need to rely on l resources of last resort to defeat them..
48 min
16
S4 E19 - Alexandria Leaving, Part 1
The Bookburners head to Alexandria for a final face-off with the Engströms.
45 min
17
S4 E18 - Eating Words, Part 2
Asanti studies may hold the key to defeating the demonic swarm.
38 min
18
S4 E17 - Eating Words, Part 1
A particularly nasty bunch of demons swarms the Vatican, and Team three may need to switch up their usual tactics.
40 min
19
S4 E16 - A Message Across Worlds, Part 2
With Asanti’s height-ened magical powers and more knowledge at their fingertips, they’re ready for whatever might be waiting for them.
39 min
20
S4 E15 - A Message Across Worlds, Part 1
Team Three’s last encounter with the Oracle of Delphi led to the Oracle’s death. But they’re determined not to let this next visit go wrong.
37 min
21
S4 E14 - Wax, Part 2
Grace has chance to set things right again…and perhaps a chance at a normal life withe Sal.
34 min
22
S4 E13 - Wax, Part 1
When Grace’s candle is stole, Grace gets a chance to confront the man who bound her life to it.
43 min
23
S4 E12 - O’er the Deep Blue Sea, Part 2
In the hands of the Engström family, a powerful magical item could spell danger for anyone in their way.
36 min
24
S4 E11 - O’er the Deep Blue Sea, Part 1
Povel Engström has been an annoyance to the Bookburners in the past, but the rest of his family . . . they’re a different story.
38 min
25
S4 E10 - A Hell of a Town, Part 2
The death that Sal returned to New York to investigate has implications far beyond the city.
34 min