 When I did a special episode a couple of months ago about science fiction anthologies, I went online afterwards looking for some series that I had not read and I had heard or read about Stellar, which is edited by Judy Lynn Del Ray, wife of the famous writer and editor Lester Del Ray. When I mentioned this volume one a few reviews ago, I said that I was about halfway through volume one and was unimpressed with it. Well, the second half of the book picked up and I liked it quite a bit. Volume three I liked pretty much all the way through in the same with volume six. I recommend them. These are what you would call old-school science fiction. The list of authors as you can see is quite impressive. I particularly want to point out that Clifford D. Simac has a story in each of these books, all three. In volume three in particular, there's Auk House, which I recommend and also in volume six there is Bite Your Tongue, which I also recommend. Volume three, the first story in the book is the first story ever written and ever published by Jack L. Chalker. I was also impressed with this story here in volume three called We Hold These Writes by Henry Melton. That's an author I'd not heard of, but an excellent little story. I want to show you what Judy Lindell Ray had to say in the introduction. There's an excerpt from the solicitation letter she sent out to authors asking for submissions. She says in part, I don't want mood pieces without plots. I don't want vignettes. I don't want character sketches, and I don't want obvious extrapolations of current fads and newspaper stories. These yarns should have beginnings, middles, and most important ends exclamation points. I want writers to solve the problems they postulate and not pawn off implicit endings as great art. If that doesn't sell you on this series and Judy Lindell Ray in general, then I don't know what could. She obviously has a particular fondness for a certain type of story, which I would call a procedural, meaning extremely detailed examinations of what the characters are doing and how they're doing them, like a police drama or medical drama that you see on TV. The point of the action is what the police are doing, what the doctors are doing, and in the first volume there's a There's a Howe Clement story, the logical life, and Howe Clement is a perfect example of the kind of thing I'm talking about. So that's what you're going to get with the Stellar series, and I recommend it. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr. That's my headquarters. In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day.