 All right my wrap-up for May of 2016 first of all my YouTube Subscribership is well over 500 now It's at 517 or something like that. So firmly over 500. I'm getting new subscribers all the time I lose subscribers constantly. There's a constant flow of subscribers leaving But there's a larger flow coming in the analytics tell me that almost a hundred percent of my views are coming from YouTube searches and YouTube recommendations not from current subscribers and Not from any traffic that I'm sending in from the tumbler or Facebook or whatever So I don't know how it's building or why the tumbler by the way is at 99 followers It's been stuck at 99 followers for like the last 10 days a month ago It was at 97 and then it went back down to 96 or 95 and then Creeps back up to 99 and it stuck there and it's taunting me with that 100 number, but it won't it won't click over it won't Anyway, the the patrons are the same as they've been for the last six eight months Three patrons at $26 a month There's a link in the description below to become a patron. So go do that. Oh and while I'm thinking about it I've never asked people to to click the like button and to subscribe and I should do that because I Know you see everybody on YouTube asking people to like and subscribe, but really clicking that thumbs up button Really is how videos get seen. So please click the thumbs up when you like what you see, okay? Now as far as books that I'm reading and books that have come in. This is what I'm reading right now Stephen King's night shift a collection of short stories. They're super short stories. Just most of them are just a few pages long They're pretty good I'll give this its own review when I'm done with it and This came in Last month the collected fiction of Jorge Luis Borges I Already have some of his stuff, but I don't have all of his stuff, which is mostly short fiction and He's an amazing writer if you've not read Borges you should This was the first thing that came in this month silver on the road Laura and Gilman. I already reviewed this. This was my my last video hell of a book. I loved it the Vaginal fantasy hangout book club with Felicia Day is going to review this Next Tuesday June 7th, I think So I'll put in a link below go look for that. It's a great show if you've never seen it before Darwinia Don't know what this is by Robert Charles Wilson An author. I've not read a book. I'm not familiar with I saw it on the shelf here. I picked it up These two I got at that bookstore. I showed you a picture before that just says books on the front Macroscope when I posted this on tumblr. I said I may have read this before But no, I have definitely not read this before I read the first chapter This is some of the worst writing I've ever seen I may push through this just to see exactly how bad it is or most of the way through it anyway So I can give it a properly negative review And here's a thing called the lost king By a Margaret vice or wise. I don't know Star of the Guardians volume 1 it says there if you can see it the the woman who runs this bookstore did something that I Appreciate she puts all of the books in the series together and she puts a tag On each of them. See this one says star one She numbers them on their spines and puts them all together That's great. I love that. I've never seen any other bookstore do that before This particular bookstore it has a really nice science fiction section It's not a large bookstore, but it has a really nice science fiction selection a large percentage of the books in that section are by women mostly Authors that I've not seen before So I just I pick one out First in a series author I've not read before so we'll see what happens I Found this at the dollar store just down the street, and it was actually a dollar You know, they don't sell anything for a dollar at the dollar store anymore This was actually a dollar backtrack It's called the description and I posted this on the picture of it on the tumbler. This is the craziest It's about some young delinquent guy who's who goes about defacing the subways in New York and the rail system itself Gets fit up with him and flings him back in time to teach him a lesson. It's called backtracked I can't imagine that this is a good book. I don't know if I'll even bother maybe Pick this up these two things up at mega con in Orlando last weekend Cleopatra in space volume one I've seen this guy's art Online and I think it's really cute. I like his retro cartoony style Cleopatra in space I'll give this a read sometime and let you know how it is and I bought this Wonder Woman Trade paper back from Gale Simone. I met Gale Simone and bought this from her. I Used to be a big reader and collector of comics back in the 1980s starting in the late 70s In the 1990s I stopped collecting and pretty much reading comics entirely because comics stink They really stink and I've not read a lot of Wonder Woman comics If I can say one thing about Wonder Woman comics in general over the years just one word inconsistent Very inconsistent they change your origin every couple of years But I like Gale Simone's writing so I'll give this a look and let you know The next batch of reviews that I'm gonna do I have these these three Alistair Reynolds books that I've finished over the last year and I have things to say about each of them so I'll give each of them their own review And I'll do all three of these this week back to back but before that I have a special video I want to make maybe a couple of specials and I'll see you then remember like and subscribe and become a patron 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-second sci-fi tumblr. 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