 All right, it's time to talk about what happened in January. January of 2016, that is. Ah, I can't believe it's already 2016 and that January is already over. It's amazing. Before I talk about the books that I've been reading this month, let me do a little bit of an update about the YouTube channel. I passed 400 subscribers a couple of weeks ago. My little video about the Space 1999 technical manual is what put me over. The Tumblr has not grown. The Twitter is not growing and neither is the Facebook. There is a Pinterest and an Instagram. I don't update them very much. There's no Follow Ship there at all. Is Follow Ship a word? The YouTube channel is the only part of this project that is getting any attention and that is actually growing and I'm getting comments on every video now and interacting with people who are leaving comments. There are no new patrons this month. Just like in December there are three patrons, I think $24 a month. Anyway, let's talk about the books that I've been reading just today. Earlier this afternoon I finished reading an e-book of Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. It's an unusual book for Philip K. Dick. It's short like most of his books are. I'll review that in March. For February each week I'm going to review a book series that is novels that compose a series, not collections of anthology stories, but novel series. What else did I read in January? I read Radiance which I reviewed last week and as far as new reading projects that I finished, there's not, I don't think there's anything else to tell you. I started reading Across the Wall by Garth Nix. I'm not impressed so far. I finally got around to Memoirs of a Space Woman by Naomi Michison. I've had this for a while and been looking forward to it and again I'm not very impressed. And The Best of Pamela Sargent. This is a book I had years ago. I remembered it but I didn't have a copy of it. I acquired this sometime last year and I'll finish it and let you know. Other than that, as far as books go, I checked out two books from the library Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. I've never read Bujold before. I hear about her all the time, especially this series, The Borkosigan Saga. My YouTube friend Catherine at Maybe in Android talks about this all the time so I'm sure she'll be pleased to hear about this. And Something Called A Darkling Sea by James A. Cambius. That's it as far as books. I did have one other idea that I wanted to talk to my YouTube subscribers about. There's quite a few of the people that I follow on YouTube who open up these delivery boxes they get every month. They call them, what do they call them? Lootcrate is one of them. I can't really tell you why I enjoy watching people open those boxes. I'm not interested in the boxes or their contents myself. I guess I follow these people because I like them and their personality to begin with. So watching them, just watching them do stuff is why I follow them in the first place. Boy, that sounds stupid when you say it out loud, doesn't it? Anyway, I always find myself wondering what would a science fiction crate be like? What would you get in a box for science fiction? And it's science fiction, specifically science fiction reading that we do here. So I'm thinking, what would you all think of a science fiction book crate every month? Every month you get a book. I would go to the used bookstores, I would buy books, books that I've either read or authors that I know are good or authors that I know you probably haven't seen before, buy stacks of books and send a book out to every subscriber every month. I guess call it sci-fi crate. The monthly fee would have to be something like $20 a month because in addition to shopping for the books and paying for postage and paying for shipping supplies, because envelopes and bubble wrap do cost money, I would also be spending time shopping and that takes time and time is money. So it would have to be something like $20 a month and you would get one used book. If you like that idea, leave a comment below right now. If I can get four or five people interested in that, I'll start it immediately. It should be easy to get up and going. Also, when you follow my patronage link in the description below, you're sent to my Tumblr. In the future, I'm going to start sending you to 50th street. That's 50th.st where 30 second sci-fi and my projects in general are going to be housed. And there will be other people with their own projects under the umbrella of 50th street as the year goes on. It's going to be a subscribership crowdfunding site for artists and creators. We've seen that kind of thing online before and this is another one and I'm happy to be participating in starting this one up. Okay, so let me know what you think and I'll see you with the next review. 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 Tumblr. That's my headquarters. In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day.