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Disc Coverers
by Iris Jay, Grace Lovelace, Balina Mahigan, and Juniper Theory
Reading, reviewing and objectively ranking all 41 novels in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, chronologically. Updates monthly.
Episodes
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38: I Shall Wear Midnight
Hellooooo discettes, discinos and discerati! Welcome back to DISC COVERERS, the not-even-remotely-monthly-at-this-point podcast that reads, reviews and ranks the Discworld novels! In today's ep, we cover I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT, in which an older, bolder Tiffany faces down her most challenging foe...
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37: Unseen Academicals
SPORTS!!!! That's right, we're touching SO much grass and fondling SO many balls as we, the DISC COVERERS, cover Terry's longest and possibly most British book yet: UNSEEN ACADEMICALS! Join us as we untangle exactly what makes football culture so appealing, as filtered thorugh the lens of the…
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36: Making Money
Money money MONEYYYY!!! The lovely, horrible stuff! This episode, we intrepid DISC COVERERS explore MAKING MONEY, the direct follow-up to our #2 book GOING POSTAL and the first entry in what we're tactfully calling "the Encore Era". What's our boy Moist von Lipwig been up to this whole time? Why...
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35: Wintersmith
The frost is on the pumpkin and the hay is in the barn, disceroonies! On today's episode of DISC COVERERS, we're covering WINTERSMITH, the third Tiffany Aching book from 2006. Tiff is coming into her own as a witch, but like any teenage work study program, she's dealing with her share of issues--...
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BONUS: "Going Postal", The Miniseries [ft. Kel McDonald]
A little treat for you this week, discerati! Friend of the pod Kel McDonald joins us as we watch through the two-part Sky TV adaptation of GOING POSTAL! This bold reimagining cuts the original book's breathless enthusiasm for the telecommunications industry and burning hatred of the moneymen who...
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34: Thud!
DISC COVERERS rides again, discii maximii! This episode, we're covering THUD!, another Watch-centric book where our boy Sam has to face down festering racial tensions, political turmoil and fatherhood with the strongest, stiffest "oi wot's all this then" he can possibly muster. What do monster...
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33: Going Postal
MAIL CALL!!!! Welcome back to DISC COVERERS, dearest discettes! This episode is one I KNOW a lot of you have been waiting for: we're covering GOING POSTAL, the first book starring fandom babygirl Moist von Lipwig and a towering polemic against the privatization of the telecommunications grid.…
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32: A Hat Full Of Sky
HELLOOOOOO, discettes and discerati! Our latest episode of DISC COVERERS is all about A HAT FULL OF SKY, the second novel in the Tiffany Aching YA series and the deepest look we've gotten yet into the interpersonal lives and careers of witches. Is the concept of "mean girls" an omniversal…
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31: Monstrous Regiment
This is the episode a lot of you gender criminals have been waiting for: on this installment of DISC COVERERS, we're covering MONSTROUS REGIMENT! Special guest MOSS aka "BEATINGTHEBINARY" joins us on a no-expenses-paid trip to tiny, war-torn Borogravia, where we follow and dissect the worst gal…
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30: The Wee Free Men
BAAAAAA! It's DISC COVERERS time again, discettes and discerati, and this time we're covering THE WEE FREE MEN, the first book in Sir T to the P's Tiffany Aching subseries of young adult novels! Will we find stuff to be gay and nasty about in this idyllic ramble through a pastoral countryside?…
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29: Night Watch
Did you miss us?? Back from the Summer of Surgery, DISC COVERERS presents a very special episode: for the first time ever, all four of us are recording face to face! And we're covering the book people have been asking us about since we started the show, NIGHT WATCH! Sam Vimes has come unstuck in...
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BONUS: The Amazing Maurice (film review feat. Nero Villagallos O'Reilly)
First off, that's way too many teeth for a cat to have. DISCOVER US ONLINE: https://discpod.fun / [email protected] on email / @[email protected] on Mastodon / @discpod on Cohost, Bluesky and Xwitter NERO VILLAGALLOS O'REILLY: https://itsnero.com / webcomic ULTRAVIOLENTS at…
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28: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Squeakings and salutations, discettes and discinos! On this episode of DISC COVERERS, we're exploring Terry's first venture into young adult fiction: 2001's THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS. We're admittedly less familiar with the YA end of Discworld, so this book's nuanced themes and...
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27: The Last Hero
DISC COVERERS is back, and it's time we took this podcast to the last place in Discworld untouched by capitalism... SPACE! On this episode we cover THE LAST HERO, a short novella about elderly barbarians and wizard hijinks that mostly exists as an excuse for Paul Kidby to paint some really...
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26: Thief of Time
TICK TOCK, DISCERATI... It's DISC COVERERS time again, and on this episode we're covering 2001's THIEF OF TIME! The Auditors are back on their bullshit again. They want to shatter time itself, and one of their number walks among the humans of the disc in mortal form. Only veteran History Monk...
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25: The Truth
Extra, extra! Read all about it! DISC COVERERS returns for another enthralling episode, and this time we're covering THE TRUTH, Sir T of P's jaunt through journalism. In a world where free speech is an urban legend and accountability for the aristocracy is a joke, what drives someone to start...
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24: The Fifth Elephant
Ghoulish greetings, discerati! DISC COVERERS is back in time for spooky season, and this time we're covering THE FIFTH ELEPHANT! Special guest host and werewolf expert KEL MCDONALD joins us to talk about this dark, thrill-packed political potboiler that also, coincidentally, just happens to be a...
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23: Carpe Jugulum
Ahhh, the creatures of the night... what beautiful pods they cast... DISC COVERERS is back, and this episode we're sucking harder than ever! CARPE JUGULUM is the finale of the Witches novel series (...sort of), and holy smokes, there's SO much going on with this book that just calling it "the one...
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22: The Last Continent
G'DAY, MATES! Disc Coverers is BACK, and on today's episode we're reviewing the last (sort of) and best (technically) Rincewind novel, THE LAST CONTINENT! This book is aggressively just fine-- it's not blindingly offensive like the last Rincewind book, but it also doesn't have a ton of Incredible...
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21: Jingo
Well, Discettes and Discinos, here we are at the exact midpoint of our journey through Discworld. I wish we had a better book to celebrate the occasion. If Terry had just released this one before Hogfather, or if the "Science Of" books and short stories were included in the Official Discworld...
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20: Hogfather
HAPPY (slightly belated) HOLIDAYS, DISCITES! 2023 has been off to a bit of a hectic start, but we're BACK with the Discworld series' most (unfortunately for us) time-sensitive installment, HOGFATHER. Someone has killed the spirit of Hogswatch, and it's up to Death to fill in-- and up to his...
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19: Feet Of Clay
Greetings, disc-istas! Tonight's episode of DISC COVERERS is a reeeeal good one... we're covering FEET OF CLAY, another Watch book about mechanized labor, arsenic, rat hunting and gender that might actually be the most cyberpunk Discworld novel we've yet read. Who decides who gets to be a person?...
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18: Maskerade
SING!! SING FOR ME, DISCETTES AND DISCINOS!!!!! We're back, and this month we're returning to the realm of actual decent literature with the operatic 18th Discworld novel, MASKERADE! Great news if you like the Witches, terrible news if you don't have a backlog of historical opera knowledge. Is...
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17: Interesting Times
Well, listeners... we did it. We finally found a worse Discworld book than Eric. OUR CURRENT RANKING: 1. Small Gods 2. Reaper Man 3. Men At Arms 4. Lords and Ladies 5. Guards! Guards! 6. Mort 7. Soul Music 8. Witches Abroad 9. Wyrd Sisters 10. Moving Pictures 11. Equal Rites 12. Pyramids 13....
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16: Soul Music
Discettes, discinos and assorted discerati... are you ready to ROCK?! Today on DISC COVERERS we blow your hair to the back of this auditorium with our discussion of T.P.'s 16th DW outing, SOUL MUSIC! In this episode, we dig into the HEAVY questions, including: Can you really write a resonant…
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15: Men At Arms
Hello hello hello, Discos, Discettes and Dischesas! DISC COVERERS is back, and we're covering MEN AT ARMS, the second novel in the Watch subseries and (arguably) the first one where the characters do actual fantasy policework. In this episode, we tackle such important questions as: What does...
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14: Lords And Ladies
Greetings and salutations, Diskettes! (Yes, we finally have a proper name for all you fans! Thank goodness, frankly.) On this, our newest episode of DISC COVERERS, we're covering LORDS AND LADIES, Sir Terry's fourteenth Discworld book and a bit of a thematic outlier-- scrape off its thin topcoat…
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13: Small Gods
May the Disc be with you (and also with you)! This episode, DISC COVERERS discusses SMALL GODS, an incisive critique on theocratic corruption and the ephemeral nature of the divine, as well as just a really well put together book. It has a beginning, a middle AND an end! Sir Terry wasn't phoning…
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12: Witches Abroad
Pack your bags and don't forget your toothbrush, Disc-heads! In this episode, DISC COVERERS tackles the twelfth Discworld novel, WITCHES ABROAD! While any time spent with Granny, Nanny and Magrat is a treat, we ultimately had a lot of mixed feelings about this book and its seemingly well-meaning...
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Bonus 01: Johnny And The Dead
Fun trivia factoid! Did you know Sir Terry P wrote books.... other than Discworld novels? It's true! Join us on our first ever DISC COVERERS BONUS EPISODE, as regular host June and special guests Zoe and ▓▓▓▓ dive into JOHNNY AND THE DEAD, Pratchett's post-Thatcher critique of economic austerity...
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11: Reaper Man
Ask not for whom the bell tolls... it tolls for DISC COVERERS! This week, we're dead excited to discuss the eleventh Discworld book in the series, REAPER MAN-- a title about everyone's favorite bone daddy Death getting fired from his eternal supervisor position, and making a new life for himself...
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10: Moving Pictures
LIGHTS... CAMERA.... PODCAST! Your personal favorite Discworld podcast DISC COVERERS is back, and this episode we're covering the tenth book in the series, MOVING PICTURES! Join us as we follow handsome gadfly Victor Tugelbend to the glitz and glamour of a little town called Holy Wood. Are movies...
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09: Eric
ON THIS EPISODE OF DISC COVERERS: Know what's more impressive than summoning demons? Summoning the patience for a whole hour's worth of discussion about the worst Discworld book we've read so far, ERIC (or, more accurately, "(strike)FAUST(/strike) ERIC")! Why does this book feel like a dumping...
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08: Guards! Guards!
Right, what's all this then? It's a new episode covering the eighth Discworld novel and the first in its beloved Watch series of stories, GUARDS! GUARDS! Is this the most anti-monarchist Discworld book we've read yet? Do the Watch really count as cops, despite technically being police officers?…
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07: Pyramids
Hey buddy, wanna buy a scenic river kingdom with over 7,000 years of history? In this episode, we slather on the sunscreen and wander out into the seventh book in the Discworld series, PYRAMIDS! Are there better book ideas secreted away inside this book? Does the fictional Kingdom of Djelibeybi...
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06: Wyrd Sisters
By the pricking of my thumbs... something Discworld this way comes! This month we're covering WYRD SISTERS, book that was released the same year as Sourcery and yet stands on its own as a far funnier, more pleasantly competent read. Hop on your souped-up broomstick and join us as we discuss Sir...
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05: Sourcery
Whooooo's excited for another book about Rincewind?! ...Okay, fine, who's tepidly willing to tolerate another book about Rincewind? In this episode we're tackling D-world Book 5: SOURCERY, a book with some interesting things to say about the corrupting nature of power. Unfortunately, this gets...
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04: Mort
Howdy-hoo and how 'bout you, Discheads! Today we're tackling the fourth book in the Discworld series and the first one to finally yank attention away from wizard shenanigans, MORT! What's it like to be the anthropomorphic personification of Death? Can princesses really piss through a whole stack…
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03: Equal Rites
Have you heard of... genders? We're back with a streamlined new show format and we're taking on Sir Terry's earliest attempt at a Girl Power-ed Discworld novel, Equal Rites. Does he succeed at this? ...Ehhhhh. Is it interesting to read? Sure! We also talk about pizza jokes from the 1980's, dick...
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02b: The Light Fantastic (Part 2)
We continue our gripping analysis of The Light Fantastic, and discuss troll taxonomy, dental accessories, a good bit of The Genders, and more jokes that I'm sure were real corkers to Brits during the 1980s but which are like transmissions from an alternate universe to us North American scum.…
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02a: The Light Fantastic (Part 1)
Our second episode and first of the year! Analyzing The Light Fantastic ended up taking longer than we expected, so we split this episode into two parts, the second of which we'll upload two weeks from now. IN PART ONE: Does Rincewind suck any less in this book? How practical ARE harmonically…
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01: The Colour Of Magic
Our first episode! Aaaaa!!! We get a little jazzed and end up digging into our talking points before we summarize the plot, instead of after, so get ready for that. Does Terr-bear's first Discworld book deserve the bad rap that it gets? Does Rincewind suck, or is he secretly cool? Which jokes…
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How many episodes does Disc Coverers have?
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What is Disc Coverers about?
Reading, reviewing and objectively ranking all 41 novels in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, chronologically. Updates monthly.
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Disc Coverers is created and hosted by Iris Jay, Grace Lovelace, Balina Mahigan, and Juniper Theory.
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