 Alright, it is July 2nd, 2017, which means it's time to wrap up my activities from June. And I think as you can tell, I've been busy. This is me setting up the green screen situation that I started working on months ago, last fall even. I bought the green cloth and I already had the lights and everything. It was just a matter of sitting down and doing it. So I'm back, I'm settled in, I've got my lights set up again and I've got the green cloth and the flying star field that I've been using in the book reviews and it works. I mean, this is more than good enough for a local weather forecast, right? I'll give you a look at what the green screen looks like without the star field. If I can figure out how to turn the mat on and off, okay. A special note directly to Bonnie Burton. Last week on Twitter we exchanged tweets about buying a green screen setup and I recommended just buying some green cloth that Joanne or Michael's or whatever and then some cheap LED lamps from eBay. Here's the kind of lamp I'm talking about. That's what I'm using here. I hadn't set it up last week, but I knew it would work and here it is. As you can tell, I'm congested. I had a flu last week, pretty ugly one too. I'm still not quite over it. But anyway, about the channel here on YouTube. We're well on our way to 800 subscribers, which I'm very pleased about. I still have my four patrons and I'd like more, of course. Any of you who like the work that I'm doing here, the book reviews, the movie reviews, anything else that I'm doing, please become a supporter. Become a patron at the link in the description below. Go to www.50th.st and follow the 30-second sci-fi link. You can subscribe at any level, $2 a month, $4 a month, and at the $20 a month level, you will get the sci-fi book bag. I will mail you a science fiction book every month. I will actually do that. I've been offering that deal now for a couple of years and no one's taking me up on it yet, but I'll do that. All right. As far as the books that I read last month and the books that I'm reading now, there's a lot to talk about, so let's go look at that. Okay, I didn't do a lot of book buying this month, but the few times that I did buy books, I bought handfuls of them, so here they are. As far as the books that I read in June, my last three book reviews are the books that I finished in June, and also Time Probe, The Anthology of Short Stories, edited by Arthur C. Clarke. That'll be my next review, so look for that. And I've started reading another anthology I bought the month before called Never in This World. I also read the first two chapters of five different books that I've never read before to do another one of these triad chapter book tag videos, which I'm going to record immediately after recording this video, and it'll be my very next video. Okay, so here's the stuff that I got. You all saw that video I made of photos that I took at the Rose City Book Fair. Here's the stuff that I got at the Book Fair. The first book of prehistoric animals, classic dinosaur book. I may do a special video just about this book. You know how I like these retro science books, especially dinosaur books. And this other book in that series, the first book series, apparently there were a lot of them. Here's a list of them inside the dust jackets. The dealer was selling these for $2 apiece. Yeah, evidently he can't get rid of them. Now this I bought at least two months ago, and I bought it some time ago, and never talked about it. It's Kate Beaton's second collection of comic strips with step-aside pops. If you're not familiar with Kate Beaton, you need to get online and get busy. She is one of our great 21st century cartoonists. If you don't believe me, go look, harkavagrant.com is her website. Now the other stuff that I got at the Book Fair, let me see if I can separate these out. I think, yeah, it's these four that I got. There was a dealer that had a table full of paperbacks that were selling for really good deals. So I got some stuff that I hadn't read. Mayflies by Kevin O'Donnell Jr., not a book I've heard of, not an author I've heard of. We'll see. I was trying to get stuff that not only had I not read, but I wasn't even familiar with. Well, there's this, one of the Larry Niven Ringworld books. I've never read anything other than the first Ringworld book. And then The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton. I've read one of his novels before, and I reviewed it. It was called A Second Chance at Eden. And I like his short stories better, but anyway, look at the size of this book. It's like the end of a two by four. Okay, now I'm forgetting which one I bought with which batch. Now this was with that batch, the Werner Wenge book. This and this guy, I've never read Werner Wenge. So we'll see. Now this I got, I got it at the book fair, but from a different dealer. It's an Ace Double Fritz Leiber, of course I've heard of. This author I have not, Kenneth Bulmer, The Million-Year Hunt, Beautiful Cover. Now these other books I bought when I did a little bit of an unhaul. I took some recent books, traded them in for credit at the bookstores, and I picked up a copy of this All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. I don't know anything about it. I don't know what it's about. It was published only last year, and it won the Nebula Award for Best Novel this year. And I traded in some credit and got this inexpensively. The same with this, The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Batzeglupi. I've read his short stories. I love them. I've never read his novels. These other books I bought on the same trips, the Orbit series, edited by Damon Knight. This is Orbit 12, maybe 1973. I have a few other books in this series I've showed them to you in the past. This is always good classic stuff. And then these books are cheap stuff that I don't know anything about. Here's this one just called Alien. This was published in 1977 before the movie Alien, and it says it's a science fiction horror book. It says the description on the book. It's not related at all. I don't know. The bookstore was getting rid of it for like a dollar, so I don't know. Frozen Planet and Other Science Fiction Novellas, a good classic anthology. There's always great stuff in these classic anthologies. And then something called an anthology called Flying Saucers. Another collection of classic science fiction stories. I'll look forward to that. And this one, The Unified Field by Mark Leon. I know I bought this, but I don't remember. I don't remember even looking at this. What is it? Euphoric Answers to the Mysteries of the Universe and the Punchline to the Greatest Cosmic Joke Ever Played on Humankind. Okay, this is either going to be interesting or embarrassingly bad junk. I don't know. Now these three items I picked up at conventions. This one from the Book Fair. I took some pictures of the owner's booth and he gave me this. He evidently, he publishes this himself and he evidently does podcasts. So I have a feeling I'll be in touch with this guy in the future. This I picked up at Crypticon a month ago. It's a collection of micro stories, volume three, 500 word stories. I think they said 500. Sounded interesting, so I got it. And this I picked up at Fan Fest, a local convention. There's a fantasy author there with a table full of her books. And among them was this collection of short stories for $5. And I was like, you know, for $5, I'll support an author. That's it for this time. Remember, like and subscribe. The like button is how the videos get seen. The subscription button means that you'll see my next video and please become a patron. Click on the link here on the screen or in the description below where you can sign up for a small monthly rate to support what I'm doing here. And thank you again for watching.