DRAGONS DADDIES DEEP SPACE

William and Jacob are heading to prom this week to discuss Stephen King’s Carrie and Mike Flanagan’s wildly ambitious new TV adaptation. Telekinesis, pig’s blood, evil mean girls, religious trauma, and a surprisingly X-Men-esque supernatural conspiracy abound as your hosts compare the horror classic to a show they absolutely loved. But first…William emerges from a month-long Halloween decorating h...

It's spooky season on DDDpod, as William and Jacob head into the dark ages with Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires . God has turned his back on humanity as the black plague rages across Europe, spurred on by legions of disturbingly gross demons who have taken over every corner of France–a disgraced knight and young girl might be the only thing that can stand in the way of the armies...

William and Jacob are back to discuss the conclusion of Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party , and despite their love for her beautiful prose, compelling characters, and mind-bending sci-fi, they're left with one burning question: What the hell was the point? Parallel universes, dystopian surveillance states, doppelgängers, and a mysterious painting all come together in a finale that your hosts...

DDDSpod visits the uncanny near future as they discuss Part 1 ("Side A") of Emily St. John Mandel's newest literary genre tease Exit Party . In 2031, Ari is newly released from prison, emerging into an unfamiliar United States that has been torn apart by a recently-ended civil war. A particularly strange house party celebrating the end of the conflict ends with its host's disappe...

William and Jacob are going back to Hell to finish Mackenzie Reed’s I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell , a fast, funny paranormal romance that they had a blast reading, even if its corporate underworld never quite lives up to its diabolical potential. Brie and Luke rescue some kidnapped women, finally get down and dirty, crash a demonic masquerade, uncover Luke’s extremely confusing family histor...

William and Jacob are going to hell this week with the first half of Mackenzie Reed’s  I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell , a paranormal romance that is somehow exactly as dumb, fun, and delightful as they were craving. Depressed office worker Brie Benson thinks her biggest problem is getting a report faxed on time, until she catches her annoyingly hot boss Luke exorcising a demon in his office a...

DDDSpod returns to the world of Ana and Din to finish Robert Jackson Bennett’s  A Trade of Blood ! As bodies pile up across cattle country, our favorite fantasy detectives finally unravel the zombie-fungus murder conspiracy, uncover some deeply disturbing secrets from the ancient Daljen, and learn that sometimes the real villain really is just capitalism (and the meat industry).  But first, they r...

DDDSpod is back with their favorite fantasy detectives Ana and Din as they dive into Parts One and Two of Robert Jackson Bennett’s  A Trade of Blood ! This time, a star-crossed romance between the heirs of two feuding cattle dynasties ends in a grisly murder—but when the crime scene starts moving, Ana and Din uncover a fungal conspiracy involving mind-controlled humans, creepy monkey-cats, mysteri...

This week William and Jacob head firmly into deep space as they give a full spoiler review of Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, the first book in the internet-favorite Sun Eater series. Hadrian Marlowe  The aliens couldn’t be cooler, and the world building is super intriguing. They weren’t so sure about some of the other choices here. But first, they talk about The Odyssey , just like eve...

After an unplanned hiatus....Jacob and William are back to discuss the ending of Antonia Hodgson's utterly delightful fantasy mystery The Raven Scholar. Bonkers twists and utterly delightful characters kept your hosts guessing and enthralled to the very last page. But first...William gives his thoughts on the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl and Red Rising books, while Jacob passes the middle point...

WARNING –this episode is allegedly about Parts 3-5 of The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, but Jacob and William are obligated to spend the first twenty minutes disclosing everything they hated about Disclosure Day . Thank the Eight [and may they remain hidden] that The Raven Scholar continues to be one of the best books they’ve read this year. Parts 3-5 deepen some mysteries and resolve others,...

DDDSpod has found a new obsession in The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, a deeply clever and original fantasy novel. This Hugo shortlist-ee has it all–animal-aligned magic, a locked room murder mystery, centuries-long history and a feisty heroine who doesn't grate on a single nerve, unlike most popular #booktok protagonists. It's so engrossing William couldn't stop himself from readi...

DDDSpod is back on the outskirts of a freaky biopunk fantasy empire with their favorite detectives Ana and Din as they discuss A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett. When a treasury envoy from the empire to the Kingdom of Yarrow goes missing, Ana and Din find themselves going head to head with a serial killer, and uncovering some of the Empire's most carefully hidden secrets. It's...

William and Jacob are back after a brief break to discuss Fonda Lee's  The Last Contract of Isako . Isthmus Isako is a corporate samurai on the brutal planet Aquilo, where your next pink slip could mean your head is literally on the chopping block. There are a lot of typical sci-fi things happening here, and it's a well-paced and well-written novel but...it doesn't quite work for your...

It’s time for a big departure on DRAGONS DADDIES DEEP SPACE as your hosts are diving deep into Caro Claire Burke’s brilliant new novel Yesteryear , which is admittedly…not really sci-fi or fantasy, but is legitimately an incredible read. Natalie Heller Mills is the plastered-on smile behind a popular tradwife Instagram account whose perfect facade is beginning to crumble, especially when she wakes...

It's DDDSpod's second and final episode about The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey. After an exciting and promising beginning, the disparate humans of Anjin come back together and the results are...anticlimactic. Your hosts are let down, but they're still dying to know what will happen in the final installment of The Captive's War trilogy. But first, William obtains a poultice f...

DDDSpod is back covering book two of James S.A. Corey's Captives War trilogy as Jacob and William discuss parts one and two of The Faith of Beasts. Dafyd is trying his best to hold it together as he's now the leader of the human moiety at the Carryx World Palace, and Jessyn makes an unexpected discovery while hoping to not run out of her antipscyhotic decoction. Your hosts couldn't be...

It's time for the epic conclusion of Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey! Phèdre no Delaunay's roadtrip through alternate Europe continues as she visists Tsinganos, Picts, Albans and a ticked-off sea deity. Will Phèdre no Delaunay be able to use her powers of spycraft, linguistics and sensuality to unite the kingdoms of Alba and Terre D'ange to eliminate the Skaldi threat? You'l...

DDDSpod is back with the sultry angel descendents this week, as your hosts discuss chapaters 31-60 of Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. The plot turns unexpectedly as the story ramps into gear, the stakes clarify, and the central romance develops. Despite the significant time investment required, your hosts are still loving every hour they're spending with this book. Before they get ther...

Get ready to give your safe word, because DDDSpod is diving into Jacqueline Carey's 2001 BDSM historical fantasy masterpiece, Kushiel's Dart . The first thirty chapters of this precursor to modern (inferior) romantasy establish an evocative world of seduction and subterfuge—and your hosts can't get enough. But first–Taylor Frankie Paul eats up more oxygen and both hosts wonder how book...

After a year of on-again/off-again journeying with Aelin Galathynius, FKA Celaena Sardothien, DDDSpod has finally finished the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. In this week’s episode, your hosts focus on Kingdom of Ash ’s Part 2: Gods and Gates , but they’re ready to pass judgment on the mammoth final volume and the series as a whole. Was it time well spent? Honestly, they're not sure....

At long last, DDDSPod is finishing it's year-long read of the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. There are a lot of pages and characters in this book! Aelin is trapped in a box, Lysandra is cosplaying as the heir of fire without any of the fire magic, Dorian is trying to learn how to shape shift, Manon is uniting the witch tribes, and many, many other characters kill time as we await any...

Things are getting FREAKY this week on DRAGONS DADDIES DEEP SPACE as William and Jacob discuss There Is No Antimemetics Department by qntm, a genuinely terrifying, sci-fi/horror phantasmagoria. This club has everything: unknowable entities that eat memories, ideas that kill you if you're aware of them, Lovecraftian monsters composed of dismembered body parts, and a LOT of giant spiders that ar...

This week, Jacob and William dive headfirst into the chaotic, neon-soaked world of Matt Dinniman’s latest sci-fi thriller, Operation Bounce House . Your hosts break down why Dinniman (of Dungeon Crawler Carl fame) remains a master of the "absurdly high-stakes" genre. They discuss the book's sharp, uncomfortable reflections of our current political climate and how Dinniman manages to...

Hot off the presses, Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman, author of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, is bringing zany hijinks and serious sociopolitical commentary to DDDSpod this week. Oliver, a third-generation colonist on the faraway planet New Sonora, is living a simple life on a remote ranch with his sister Lulu, his rockband The Rhythm Mafia, and a small army of worker robots. That all c...