 my book review videos get very few views and even fewer comments, but I had one guy ask me about this shelf full of books that sit behind my chair here. There's a quick shot of my living room, by the way. More books over there, posters, stuff, graphic novels, memorabilia. Anyway, about this little shelf of books. This is almost entirely filled with old copies of fantasy and science fiction magazine. Some of them going back to the 1950s, so the earliest days of the magazine, and then they skip forward to the 90s and the early 2000s when I was a regular subscriber myself. I did not maintain my subscriptions here some of them from the early and mid 2000s. I did not maintain subscriptions to the present day mostly because of expense and also because of storage. I mean when you when you own a lot of books, you get to a point where you have to wonder where to keep them and I just I just can't do it anymore. There's a couple of anthology books. There's a hardback, the best of fantasy and science fiction, and there's a couple of paperbacks. A couple of these, I forget which one of these paperbacks but also this this hardcover edition were on the shelf in the living room in my family home in the house I grew up in. This one and one of these others. We had so many books in our home. One entire wall of the living room was filled with books and my sisters and I each had shelves full of books in our own rooms and there would be books that were just there that accumulated over the years and we wouldn't know who's they were who put them there and a couple of those were among those. Over here I have a small collection of Asimov magazine from the early 1980s 1981 to be specific. I had discovered this magazine my first year in high school but after being a subscriber for only a year or so the stories just went straight straight down the garbage shoot. It was a great magazine for a year or so and then it just wasn't anymore. The same thing happened to me in Twilight Zone magazine. Then over here is a collection of some various stuff. Science stories, some old galaxy magazine and old fantastic stories, some analogs, some old analog and then some super old astounding science fiction. This one here you know this old astounding stories I found in local bookstores from 1938. It has a E. E. Doc Smith story in there. As far as fantasy and science fiction magazine goes I have never failed to pick up any copy of any edition of fantasy and science fiction magazine in which I haven't enjoyed pretty much every story in in the magazine. It's a tremendous book. It's been very consistent over the years. I've found these antique editions in various places from time to time but I have one story. Back in the early 2000s I went through a small town in Texas called Alpine. It's Alpine Texas deep deep deep in the desert mountains of West Texas. It's not close to anything. It's down near the Big Bend country. It's not even close to El Paso. I mean it's it's far from anything. There's a little bookstore there. One entire wall of their store was completely filled with a near-complete collection of fantasy and science fiction magazine. I picked up a couple of these. They were not cheap. The the ancient ones were not cheap so I only got a couple including my birth month. I didn't ask them anything about it at the time. I just marveled at it and and browsed it and picked up a couple of copies. And then three years ago in 2011 I went through Alpine again and almost the entire collection was gone. There were just a few left maybe even about this many. And I had my video camera with me. I wanted to to interview the manager and ask him about that collection. Where it had come from and how and why it was so complete. The manager they told me was away at a funeral and would not be back anytime soon so I missed her. But the girl who was working there that day told me that the collection had come directly to them from Arkham Books the official HP Lovecraft publisher. She didn't know any other details and I really wanted to know that story. Someday I'll get back through Alpine again. I'm sure I will. I've been planning for several years now to take a long drive from Florida all the way to Los Angeles and San Francisco and I-10 passes not far from Alpine and I will visit again and I will get that interview and I will get that story. But that's it. This is episode number 50 of 30 second sci-fi book reviews. I don't know that I'm going to continue. Like I was saying there's very little activity on these videos. I've enjoyed making them. They don't take very long to make but they do take time and I do have other things to do. Maybe I'll do something from time to time. I do have some longer form book reviews and commentary I might do. But anyway this is number 50. If I make more I'll see you then in there. Bye.