 Okay it's August Roundup Time. I'll start off by talking about the books that I read since last time. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. This is my first venture into Discworld territory and it was very good. I liked it quite a bit. I will definitely do a review of this and I look forward to reading more of these books although there's so many of them. I can't really have the ambition of reading all of them. Berserker which I just reviewed. I read this immediately upon receiving it. I usually don't do that. I usually acquire a book and set it aside for a while but I was determined to review this because I've read most of these stories before. Space Skimmer by David Gerald. You would have seen this if you've been watching the monthly roundups. I found this at the local bookstore. Didn't know anything about it. It's a very stylistically driven writer. I don't believe I'd read David Gerald before actually. I enjoyed this but I have to give it a mixed review. I may give it its own review at some point. Diamond Dogs Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. I read the Diamond Dogs novella before and I wanted to read it again. It was so memorable. The Turquoise Days novelette which followed it up. I'm not sure what to say. It was good as well. The two of them together though strangely to say they kind of diminished each other. Maybe I'll give this book its own review because I could talk a lot about it. Now this book I'm almost finished reading and I'm definitely going to give it its own review. I'd never read Joanna Russ before. Very much a style driven author. I'm really enjoying most of this. Some of the stories don't make any sense because they're mood pieces rather than narratives about a story. Again, I'll get to it. I got this in the mail. That collection of Star Trek books by James Blish that I'd gotten a couple months ago did not include the first book and the last book. So now I just have to get the last one. Speaking of Star Trek, a couple of months ago I got this box set in of the Star Trek logs which are novelizations of the animated series. If I ever knew that these existed before, I had forgotten it. I believe when I mentioned these back when I got the James Blish books in I believe I attributed these to James Blish but they're not. They're by Alan Dean Foster. They don't really fit in the box. I'm wondering if these were replacements. This one book certainly doesn't look like it belongs with the others. Strength of Stones by Greg Bear. This is a book that I read before and I wanted to review it but I didn't remember it clearly enough so I'll reread it. These three books here. Reap the Wild Wind by Julie Sarnada, I guess. Dream Park by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes and Seeds of Earth by Michael Kobley. I found these at the thrift store at the library. A dollar each. This is a Larry Niven book I'd not heard of. We'll see. Erie Magazine No. 100. I was not a big reader of Warren magazines when I was a kid. I did collect The Rook though. You see The Rook right there which is their best selling title. This particular issue also contains the climax to The Dark Lawn, The Mystic Story by Jim Starlin and I wanted to see that. I may talk about this someday and I might not. Finally, this reminds me. I posted on the Tumblr a big stack of 17 back issues of the magazine of fantasy and science fiction. Here's a picture. Only one of these is a duplicate for me. And as always, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction is worth reading. This one I got because the magazine of fantasy and science fiction Twitter account posted this cover as a throwback Thursday a few weeks ago and I liked the cover so much. Also, there's a story in here by Henry Kutner and C.L. Moore. They're a husband and wife science fiction writing team which I should talk about someday. I'm also going to make a special video about this issue just to talk about how not to pack a book or a magazine for the mail. And I'll unwrap it especially for that video. That's it for the August Wrap Up. I'm going to do a channel update later this week and I'll see there. Bye. 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.