 Hello again everybody, this is Keith at 30 Second Sci-Fi at the 50th Street Studios. Before I get started with this book review, I want to remind all of you that every Saturday at 10 a.m. Pacific we watch bad cartoons on the 50th Street Studio Twitch channel, and we have great fun. Please come. And at 6 p.m. Pacific every Saturday, we live stream excellent movies. So please visit this address, give us a follow at the Twitch channel over there, and see you then. Okay, now for this book review. It's called Teya of Oz. It's Book one of the Ozite cycle by Rebecca Demarest, a local author here in the Seattle area. I bought this from her at a convention. I Think two years ago. Yeah, I think it was two years ago. They call it a book, but it's really It's not even a novella. It's only 35 pages long. It's a short story There are four chapters and chapter four is an epilogue. So there's really just three chapters and there's several Full page illustrations. So it's not even 35 pages. Anyway, the book as a whole is not one of my favorites the story is basically a Nancy Drew mystery Teya solves a mystery and It reads it's so short that it really reads like an Outline or a collection of ideas for a larger novel But the reason I'm telling you about it and the reason I'm reviewing it is because the starting premise Is something that that I've never forgotten. It's it stayed with me this whole time. Okay, here's the thing We are in Oz of course and it is generations later after Dorothy first appeared there. So basically today there are hundreds or maybe even thousands of Humans from the United States who are refugees in Oz Because as global warming is worsening all of the tornadoes and hurricanes are sweeping hapless mid-western Americans to Oz and There's a great difficulty among the various governments of Oz about what to do with them The Emerald City doesn't want them the Munchkins don't want them How do they house them? How do they feed them? And there's also a tremendous influx of artifacts the wreckage of homes and warehouses and all sorts of stuff from the human world that's resulted in kind of a black market trade in these Rare items that everybody in Oz wants Anyway, that's the starting point if you find that Intriguing and I kind of do even though the book ultimately Itself wasn't one of my favorites. The starting premise is so interesting and I wanted to recommend it to you. Okay. Thank you. See you next time Thank you for watching. Please become a sponsor follow the link on screen and in the description below Where you can make a monthly pledge or a one-time donation to help me Continue to make videos and please leave a comment. Let me know what you think give it a thumbs up thumbs down See you next time. Bye