DRAGONS DADDIES DEEP SPACE

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...

Warning: This episode contains 20% literary analysis and 80% Jacob and William thirsting over Ser Duncan the Tall [tv version]. That's right, DDDSPod is in Westeros this week, as William and Jacob are talking all about The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin, the source material for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , currently airing on HBO. This buddy dramedy spin on Westeros has Jacob enthralle...

William and Jacob have made it to the end of The Blacktongue Thief and, after a wildly promising takeoff, they're not sure the plane landed in one piece. Before that, Jacob talks about his time with The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter which inspires a novel DDDSpod merch idea. William struggles with SwimP3 technology (look it up), and enjoys a return trip to the universe of Mer...

Kinch, the protagonist of Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief , is avoiding death by kraken and goblin in this week's episode, while Jacob and William are starting to see some of the seams in this inventive adventure novel. They're not sure about the love story, but they're excited to see how it all concludes in next week's episode. But first...Jacob still isn't su...

It's time for some high fantasy hijinks as William and Jacob dive in to their first of three episodes about The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. Kinch Na Shannack has luck on his side (sometimes) as he works to pay off his debt to the Taker's Guild by joining up with a mysterious and badass warrior on a quest to investigate the threat of invading giants in a land wartorn by gobli...

William and Jacob are diving back into What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, where a metatextual twist blows up all of 2119 scholar Thomas Metcalfe's assumptions about 2014 poet Francis Blundy and his wife, Vivien Blundy. The 'truth' is far juicier and melodramatic than Thomas ever imagined, and your hosts are strangely moved, even if they can't fully put their finger on the why . But fi...

It's a new year and a new season for DRAGON'S DADDIES DEEP SPACE ! William and Jacob are kicking off 2026 with a foray into literary fiction with a speculative twist, as they discuss Part One of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan. In the year 2119, human society has been utterly transformed by global warming, nuclear war, and the great Derangement. Narrator Thomas Metcalfe doggedly pursues one...

It's the season finale of DRAGONS DADDIES DEEP SPACE as William and Jacob discuss the conclusion of Sara Raasch's The Nightmare Before Kissmas . Things are getting steamier and spicier than a Mexican hot chocolate (you've been warned) in the Christmas Palace as Christmas Prince Coal Claus and Halloween Prince Hex Hallows are finally ready to confront their feelings, and confront each o...

It's time to deck your halls and trim your trees as Christmas comes to DDDSPod. Naughty Nicholas "Coal" Claus, the heir apparent to the not-so-nice King of Christmas, is lovesick for the Prince of Halloween, betrothed to the Princess of Easter, and all three are locked in a love quadrangle (Coal's brother Kris (also bisexual) is obviously in love with the Princess of Easter). It&...

William and Jacob are fresh back from Thanksgiving feasting, and they do believe they have been changed for the better by Wicked: For Good , though the ‘sequel’ doesn’t defy gravity quite like part 1. Then it’s time for the epic deconstructed/reconstructed Throne of Glass tandem read as they review Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas (spoiler alert, they didn’t tandem read, William...

It's time for the epic conclusion of The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey, as Dafyd and the other hostage humans of Anjiin make their play for the survival of the human race. Jacob and William loved this book (4.5 Stars!) and find a lot to discuss and giggle about along the way. But first...your hosts can't get enough of Rosalia's LUX , wish for a better IT: Welcome to Derry , Jacob b...