Domesticating Dragons

By: Dan Koboldt

Narrated by: Austin Rising

Build-a-Bear Workshop meets Jurassic Park when a newly graduated genetic engineer goes to work for a company that aims to produce custom-made dragons

Noah Parker, a newly minted PhD, is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He's eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian's feature product: living, breathing dragons.

Although highly specialized dragons have been used for industrial purposes for years, Reptilian is desperate to crack the general retail market. By creating a dragon that can be the perfect family pet, Reptilian hopes to put a dragon into every home.

While Noah's research may help Reptilian create truly domesticated dragons, Noah has a secret goal. With his access to the company's equipment and resources, Noah plans to slip changes into the dragons' genetic code, bending the company's products to another purpose entirely....

©2021 Dan Koboldt (P)2021 Tantor

Customer service at its best!

Chapter 25 makes this book worth every penny!!

Overall it was a great book but anyone that has ever worked call/chat support needs this book for that chapter alone! The story was great on a whole and as always Austin did a great job, he was the perfect person for the tone of this book.

Creative original

Brings back fond memories of the Arizona desert with a fun twist. Smart details really capture the science

Worthwhile

Good and engaging story but the writing leaves somewhat to be desired. The performance was excellent.

Suspense and humor and dragons!

Likable characters. Realistic issues and failures, some of which were humorous as they would be in real life. The tech support calls are hilarious but you can imagine people making those calls. Will look for more from this author.

A light Listen

The story combines a bit of speculative fiction, with fantasy—tech meets dragons. The gore was kept to a minimum. The non-human characters were cute. The protagonist was smart about genetics and stupid about women, which was pretty realistic for a biotech guy. The one thing that isn’t aging well is the author’s love affair with Tesla cars, which truly have lost all their shine in 2025.