 Here's a look at one of my other bookshelves on the other side of my living room. You can see I've got more science fiction and weird fiction up here. I've got science books along the bottoms and graphic novels and children's books here in the middle. There's more science books and humor over here but the story I wanted to tell you right now is how I have come to doubt pretty much all of my memories. One of my all time favorite quotes from any story ever was from a weird fiction story from the 1930s I believe called The Thing in the X-Ray or Just in the X-Ray. I didn't remember the name of the author. I just remembered this one particular quote and I always knew that it was in this book which I'd gotten about ten years ago. So a few weeks ago I wanted to flip up that quote, make sure I got it right, and I look through the book here and the story's not in this book. It's just not there. I was able to find that particular quote online and I was able to find the story, it turns out it was by Murray Lindster of all people who would have written that story. I wouldn't have remembered that particular name. But anyway, yeah, I looked and looked, it wasn't in any of these books, so it made me start thinking if my memory about this story which I only found about ten years ago was so faulty, then what about my other memories? One of the greatest stories I've ever read is a science fiction horror story called The Screwfly Solution by Rakuna Sheldon, which is obviously a pseudonym. Turns out it was a pseudonym of James Tiptree Jr. which the name James Tiptree Jr. in itself was a pseudonym. Anyway, I always knew that that story, Screwfly Solution, was in this book. I've been carrying this book around with me for decades. I've had it in keeping it in a plastic bag until just recently. Well, I pulled it down off the shelf, pulled it out of its plastic bag, and the story is not in this book. This book was published in 1966, and Screwfly Solution was written in the late 70s, so it couldn't be in this book. This book, by the way, has an amazing collection of short stories. Let's just look at the names here. Robert Sheckley, C.M. Kornbluth, Martin Gardner, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Avram Davidson, J.G. Ballard, Frederick Brown, Clifford Simeck, Damon Knight, Alfred Bester. A lot of these are names that I've covered in my reviews. Roald Dahl, for Christ's sake. This is a collection that I'm going to have to reread. Anyway, at this point, when I went looking for this story and didn't find it where I knew it was, it got me thinking, what about my other memories? A story that impressed me greatly when I was in grade school. A story that I've never forgotten. It was called Nimzy Where the Bore Goes. The author's name I can't remember, but I knew it was in one of these books, which I've had since childhood. I've always had these books. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The two volumes I have here are Volume 2B and Volume 3. I knew it was in one of these. Well, it isn't. Pull them down on the shelf, look through them, it's not there. At this point, I just don't... I guess I can't trust any of my memories. Anyway, I go online and I look for Nimzy Where the Bore Goes and I see some evidence that it's in Volume 2A of the same series. So I ordered Volume 2A off of alibris.com and it took weeks to get to me, weeks. And I open up the book. It's not there. Nimzy Where the Bore Goes. It's not in this volume. So, I go online again and I go look at Volume 1 and the Internet tells me it is in Volume 1. So, I ordered this off of alibris and it turns out it is in here. Let's see, where did it go? Nimzy Where the Bore Goes by Louis Padgett, which is a suit in him. Not a real guy. But anyway, look at this list of stories. I'll linger here on this list where you look at these names and these titles. Evidently, when I was in grade school this was the book I had. Not those that have been on my shelf for the last 30 years. But this one. Why don't I have it anymore? Why did I remember everything wrong? I don't know. But anyway, I recommend this series and that's what the recommendation of this episode is about. A series of short stories in novellas. This Volume 1 has some of the greatest short stories ever written. Volume 2A, let me see if this is the one with the, yeah. Volume 2A contains the Time Machine by H.D. Wells. It also has Theodore Sturgeon Universe by Robert A. Highland. Universe is the short novella version of Orphans of the Sky which I reviewed earlier. Who Goes There by John W. Campbell which was the basis for the movie The Thing. John Carpenter's The Thing. Highly recommended story. If you want to introduce a new reader to science fiction this is the series you might want to consider doing it. As I mentioned, The Time Machine by H.D. Wells that is a hell of a book. It is a great, great book and it's not very long and it's not heavy on the science fiction terminology so a new reader can really get into it. One other thing that came in today, this came in just today by the way, look at, this is a hardback but it's not a real hardback. I've never seen anything like this before. When you look closely at it you can see this is a paperback cover that's been shellacked and retrofitted into a fake hardback, evidently, for a school library. Rio Grande School District Number 3, Herne, Colorado. And in the process of doing this they had to trim the pages obviously. Look how in some cases they've trimmed them right to the edge of the text. This is not cool. I've never seen something like this done to a paperback book before and I don't like it. I like the contents of the book but I don't like what they've done to it here. Another thing that came in the mail just today, Tiger by the Tail by Alan E. Norse, I love this retro cover, that Alan Norse is a guy who wrote a little book called The Blade Runner which was a story about a guy running organs for illegal surgery had nothing at all to do with the movie Blade Runner which was based, the movie Blade Runner as I'm sure you all know is based on a Philip K. Dick story called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the director of the movie renamed it Blade Runner because he saw this guy's book Blade Runner and he liked that word Blade Runner so he renamed the movie the dumbest thing any director could ever do. But anyway, I want to give this guy's short stories of look and then maybe get a copy of Blade Runner. Alright, that's it this time. Science Fiction Hall of Fame series. Definitely give them a look.