 This is the first time I've done one of these monthly roundups in about three months I guess because of all the time I spent working on the Space Odyssey series. I took way too long on that and I'm not going to do specials like that again so I'm going to keep this quick. This is most of what I brought in in the last three months. Not all of it but most of it. It looks like I'm spending an awful lot of money on books but I'm not. I rarely spend more than a dollar per book on used books and I buy pretty much exclusively used books. So when you look at it that way there's not a lot of money represented here especially stretched out over the last three months. Instead of trying to cover all of these I'm just going to mention real quickly the books that I'm reading right now or that I've just finished Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds. It is a collection of stories in the universe that his novels take place in. They're very good. I had reviewed a similar collection called Zima Blue a while back and this is every bit is good. Some of it's maybe even a little better. This is hard sci-fi. Alastair Reynolds is hard, hard sci-fi. This is not the kind of thing you would give to someone who's not read science fiction before. Anyway good stuff. I got a couple of his novels here. I've actually not read his novels. I've read his short stories so I'm curious to see how they go. My opinion of the stories in here was that the shorter they were the better. I tend to find that with most authors that I like the short stories better. I feel like they tend to ramble when their stories get long so I'll have to see what his novels are like. I just finished reading Under the Skin. It's of course the book that the movie is based on and I'll talk about that. I'll do a review of that. I started reading here down here William Slater the boy who reversed himself. I've said a number of times how much I like William Slater. The second review in this series I said that everything by William Slater was worth reading. Well since then I found a couple of books that I actually don't like. This one I don't know yet. I've only just started it. I just finished reading Driven by Eve Kennan. I read this because the the ladies over at Vaginal Fantasy were reading this. It is science fiction. It is written for the romance fandom though and it's not good. Pat Billy asked me by email recently if I recommend something that's so bad it's worth reading just for a laugh. Well yeah this. In fact I'll do a review of it just for that. You see here the the book with the yellow top that's the James Tiptree Award anthology volume one. These are collections of short stories in the science fiction genre that cover the subject of gender roles. It looks like about half of the book is actually devoted to essays about the subject of writing and the subject of gender roles in science fiction which I'm not particularly interested in but the science fiction stories that I've read in those in there so far have been very good. And this Phoenix in the Ashes by Joan de Vinge it's a collection of short stories. After being so impressed with her book Fireship which I reviewed for episode 99 I think I was so impressed with her work that I went looking for stuff by her. And there's a there's also a Cat's Paw which is a novel which I'll get to later I suppose. But I just started reading this and wow I'm impressed. I am a Joan de Vinge fan. Excellent writing. Amazing world building skills. Now when I finish this I'll definitely review it. I won't spend any more time talking. I just wanted to make this quick. You can pause the video and take a look at all these other titles of things that I've acquired in the last three months. I'll be reviewing some of them soon or maybe just talking about them soon and I'll have another book tag special coming real soon. See you then. 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.