 It's been months since I've done a book tag. I had decided last year that I was gonna do one every month I don't know what happened, but here we go I went looking around on YouTube for a book tag that I haven't done before and I found this one by Benjamin of Tomes Called six genres where he recommended two books in six different genres. Well, I'm gonna do a variation on it I'm gonna limit myself to one book in each genre to save time and I'm going to Make them all science fiction and fantasy books So they're gonna be subgenres of sci-fi and fantasy and I'm gonna call it the subgenre of book tag Benjamin's first category is dystopias and for this one, I'm going to name the 11th commandment by Lester Del Ray the idea is that The Catholic Church has become the one-world government after a limited Nuclear exchange and the phrase 11th commandment refers to the Catholic Church adding a commandment to the list And they actually call it the first commandment, which is be fruitful and multiply, which You can imagine it's the same Kind of story and the same tone as the Handmaid's tale But of course, it's not as beautifully written. That's a book that I need to read and review by the way Genre number two is romance and for this one, I'm gonna name the Time Traveler's wife It's about a man who has I guess you would call it a condition where he randomly Leaps through time and he never knows where or when he's gonna show up Except it's always near his wife or rather the young girl who will someday become his wife It is a romance first and foremost. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense It is creepy as you can imagine in an inappropriate relationship kind of way It's not a great book, but I remember it being an enjoyable enough read Genre number three is fantasy and for this one I'm gonna tell you about Firebird by our Garcia E. Robertson This is a collection of stories that I remember reading from the magazine of fantasy and science fiction in the late 90s and Early 2000s and they were some of the best stories. I've ever read. I've never forgotten them I called them the Bone Witch stories, but I guess More appropriately, they would be called the the Markovie stories They take place in a fictitious land called Markovie, which is a kind of alternate history medieval Russia with magic The the story Firebird is about a young girl who is an apprentice to the Bone Witch and that's why I remembered the Bone Witch This is a book that I need to get so I can reread the stories and give it a proper review some of the best stuff I ever remember reading For genre number four Benjamin named science fiction So I'm just gonna pick a science fiction book that I haven't talked about before and that would be code of the life maker by James P. Hogan. It is about a ecosystem and society of living machines that evolves from the wreckage of an alien spacecraft on The planet Titan the the moon of Saturn. It's an interesting little exercise in ideas about parallel evolution The next genre is paranormal and of course, I'm gonna go with something that's more science fiction paranormal The book is and the devil will drag you under by Jack Chalker. It is about an ancient alcoholic dwarf demon Who is the only one? Who knows how to stop a giant asteroid that is headed for Earth? It's as much comedy as it is anything else The sixth genre is historical fiction and for this one. I'm gonna pick man in the high castle I reviewed the TV show a few weeks ago I'm going to give it its own review next month But in the meantime, I'm gonna tell you that it is unusual for a Philip K. Dick book It has a much more well thought out world and much more well fleshed out characters than he usually does Better world-building than you expect from Philip K. Dick Finally, I'm gonna add a seventh genre And I'm gonna call it satire because during the course of thinking of books for this stuff. I kept coming up with books That would be more appropriate in a category of their own and for this one I'm gonna pick towing Jehovah by James Morrill. The story is about the dead body of God Which shows up floating face up in the Atlantic Ocean one day. It is two miles long And the angels who were dying They hire an old retired alcoholic ships captain to tow the body to the North Pole In hopes of preserving it in ice So the title is literal It is very well written. It has a lot of good modern thought about religion in it and I recommend it highly That's it. There's your seven books in this book tag. I will see you soon with another video You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There's a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumbler. That's my headquarters In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day