On this episode, we're talking about horse books! It's just that a lot of the horses in these horse books have wings... and... breathe fire... so yeah. But they're horses and it's a horse book! Listen to find out why! The tentpoles for this episode are Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern, You Drive Through the Dust by Dira Sudis, and the movie How to Train Your Dragon.

 

What We’re Reading

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry PratchettNewt’s Emerald by Garth NixThe Lie Tree by Frances HardingeDragon Age: Inquisition fanficNeeds Must by thatotherpervRag and Bone by KJ CharlesWitchmark by CL PolkThe Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline

 

Other Stuff We Mentioned

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances HardingeBlack Beauty by Anna SewellFive Children and It by E. NesbitJeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (and the rest of the Magic Shop series) by Bruce CovilleThe Goosebumps series by R.L. SteinThe Animorphs series by K.A. ApplegateThe Abhorsen books by Garth NixThe Young Wizards series by Diane DuaneHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Brainship series by Anne McCaffreyFarscapeHow I Met Your MotherWizard of Earthsea from the Earthsea Cycle series by Ursula K. Le GuinDragonflight and The White Dragon by Anne McCaffreyThe Temeraire series by Naomi NovikGeneration Kill Nirvana in FireRiver of Teeth by Sarah GaileyThe “Worst Cat” TumblrThe Valdemar books by Mercedes LackeyDragon’s Bait by Vivian Vande Velde

 

Transcription:

The transcript for this episode is available here. Thasnk you to our scribes: Sara, Neharika, and Magali!