 My work here on YouTube is supported by viewers. Please follow the links in the description below where you can make one-time donations Or you can go to the 30-second sci-fi website and pledge a small monthly amount to become a sponsor Hello viewers. Good evening or good afternoon. Good morning. Whatever time it is where you are It is November 2nd 2017 when I'm recording this which means again, it's time to Wrap up the previous month. I am at game night lounge again in Portland this time. I'm upstairs Sometime later. I'll put together a slideshow of pictures I've taken of interesting and Not so interesting board games. They've got here number one again. I want to thank my sponsors They are Greg kruski Darren Vanaria Kyle Geertz and the newest sponsors Cesar Erivalo and The returning sponsors Sean Bell. I have five sponsors bringing in a whopping $36 a month So thank you fellas for those of you who are new. I do have a $20 a month Sponsorship offer. It's called the sci-fi book bag if you Sponsor me here on YouTube at the rate of $20 a month I will send you a science fiction book in the mail every month Nobody's taking me up on that yet, but it's a real deal link to the page where you can become a sponsor is Below you can also make one-time donations if you like to before I go any further I want to shout out a special. Thank you to Tonya atomic and Josh Fennessey for their kind assistance while I visited Seattle for the geek girl con At the beginning of October. Thank you Speaking of Tonya atomic I recorded an interview with her earlier this year in March I believe for my Manos the hands of fate talk show called talk to the hand She is the director of the Manos sequel Which is almost completed and is very close to being released There's an interview with Tonya and an interview with Jackie Ray name and a video interview It was recorded live at a meeting of the Portland mystery science theater meet-up group those two episodes are in the can They are not edited. I decided I wanted to raise money for each episode of that show because it's so time-consuming I I'm asking $150 per episode There is $60 raised so far to get the Tonya atomic episode up there if you donate $30 you can Become a sponsor of the talk to the hand show and you will get a copy of my Manos the hands of fate coloring book Again, there's a link in the description below for talk to the hand. Please go do that There's another project. I'm wanting to do I want to do this on my own separate from 50th Street It is a Star Trek the animated series project where I will show Episodes of the series to people who have not seen it before and record reaction videos I'm wanting to raise money for that if you want to donate to that become a sponsor of that show Contact me and let me know okay to the regular business. I have 855 subscribers right now The the number of subscribers is continually rising. Thank you all Welcome to the new viewers the number of minutes viewed every month is not rising though and I'm wondering Why that is I think my my most loyal subscribers are watching more but casual viewers or not I think that's what's happening. That's the only thing I can think last time I talked about Numbers of views that my videos are getting to there's two episodes ago. I talked about how That review that I did of the weed whacker the works string trimmer Got the most views for a couple of months in a row And I was confused about why Well, it's not the case anymore. It dropped back down to number three and The review of the coherence movie is back in position number two but position number one for this past month is a video I did years ago Called old-school Cuba meets new queue Where I talked about how I've been solving the Rubik's Cube since 1980 I still have my cube from from that time and I went and bought a new cube and They're so different. They're built so differently the Speed is built into them and I made a little tongue-in-cheek joke about all you kids with your new cubes Apparently the young Cuban community on YouTube has found that video and they're not taking it jokingly You kids I Had always intended to do a follow-up video to that maybe I'll have to but my cubes are in storage in Florida My most viewed video ever is the coherence movie review But it only has something like 24,000 views. That's not a lot That's not a lot for YouTube, but it continually every month gets more and more views because people are searching the phrase Coherence movie explained So I I keep talking about how I need to make a follow-up video called coherence movie explained I'll do it someday Okay, let's talk about books When I was at geek girl con I recorded my monthly update video And I said that I had not bought any books at all in September, which is true But then later that very day after I recorded that video. I went over to The table where Phil folio was set up and bought one of his novels Phil folio is an old-school cartoonist that I whom I whose work I've known since the 70s and I recorded a lengthy video interview with him for the Oluk show on 50th Street And it was just two old guys sitting around talking about the 70s But he's been doing a free web comic now for like 15 years called girl genius and In recent years he and his wife started writing novelized versions of those stories and this is the first one in the series Called Agatha H in the airship city Agatha is the girl genius by the way So I thought I would be supportive of him and I bought this and I'll try reading it later And the next day while I was still in Seattle. I went to a couple of half-price bookstores they have the half-price bookstore chain up there in Washington and One of the locations had a rolling rack out front with a Shills full of science fiction books on sale for a dollar Here's a picture of it here. How could I walk past that? That's that's like not fair. Here's some of the dollar book selections that I got something called the the Carnelian throne by Janet E. Morris Not an author. I'm familiar with I have a book called the Carnelian Cube and I'm thinking right now if it's related somehow. I don't think this is the same author I'm sure it wasn't but I'm only noticing just now. This is it's number four in the Solistra series, so I'm not gonna be able to read this one and A book called time of the dark It says first time in print by Barbara Hambly again an author. I'm not familiar with the description sounded interesting the cover photo certainly looks interesting And then Greg Bear an author We should all be familiar with a book called vitals a book that I'm not specifically familiar with dollar a EV and vote Supermind how can you pass up a EV and vote for a dollar? Something called monster by A. Lee Martinez Author I'm not familiar with Dollar book fines are always mind-expanding Wanderlusts by Anna Geary. This is an author. I have heard of I've not read any of her stuff On the back says praise for grim space Is this part of the grim space saga? No, it just says best-selling author of grim space. I hope this isn't part of the series All right, whatever Gateway by Frederick Paul again an author I'm familiar with I Don't know this book specifically Oh, you okay? David Brinn, yeah, we all know David Brinn don't know this book though kill them people This is a title. I've not heard of it all It seems like a Book by David Brinn. I would have heard of the title, but no don't know this one big book to All right Now here's for the stuff that was not a dollar. I Drove into a patch of Peter F. Hamilton Pandora's star this guy writes big books. Look at this And he writes so many of these giant books in series. I don't know if this is a series, but we'll find out I also got to The neutronium alchemists and the reality dysfunction neither of which I've read and both of which are the first in the series I Bought these because I had picked up one of his books recently and Started reading it for one of my try a chapter book tags and it was Like the third or fourth book in one of these series. So I said, well, I should go find these series and also I fell into a Robert Sheckley hole This is a Crompton divided Sheckley has written a lot more books than I would expect because I'm I haven't read any of these and they didn't sound familiar either mind swap and Journey beyond tomorrow And these are nice thin books too. So there won't be a struggle so much for me to read That's it as far as new book acquisitions this month I'll put together a slideshow of Books that I took pictures of at the half price bookstore in Seattle You all seem to like those slideshow videos quite a bit So I'll keep doing that. Those are easy videos by the way. Thank you. There's there's more videos coming up all the time I'm gonna cool it a bit even more with the book reviews Maybe publish two a month and concentrate more on the 32nd half hour You all seem to like that quite a bit and I need more guests for the show if you if you all know People who do good science fiction book reviews on YouTube and they'd like to talk about vintage science fiction Tell them to give the show a look and if they're interested in being a guest they can certainly contact me the second half of my Discussion with Becky about 1984 is coming up this Sunday and then after that who knows and remember please press the like button Below this video. That's how videos here on YouTube get seen and Consider becoming a sponsor follow the link in the description below to 30 seconds sci-fi 50th ST where you can become a Paid monthly sponsor or make a one-time donation. Thank you. Good night