 All right my roundup for February 2016. At last month's wrap up I had just hit 400 subscribers on the YouTube channel and today I'm well past 450. So subscribership on the YouTube channel is continuing to grow but nothing else is. The patrons are still at $26 a month at three patrons. The Tumblr has stalled out at 80 or 81. Nothing much is happening on Twitter. Facebook still has zero likes. There's one person on Facebook who likes most of the posts I make there but the Facebook page has zero likes. There was no response at all to my suggestion about a science fiction book crate so I'll forget about that. I also said that I would start hosting 30 second sci-fi at 50th Street and I will but I'm the one who's responsible for designing that website and I'm stuck. I don't know how to do it. I've run into some problems and I'm going to have to consult help. Anyway before I get on to the books that I bought and read in February there's a couple of books I didn't mention last time. I forgot to mention that I read David Gerald's The Martian Child in January. This was a complete waste of my time. I didn't like this at all. This really isn't science fiction. I also bought Night Moves by Walter John Williams. This is a book that I read years ago and I've been intending for some time to get another copy and reread it so I can review it and I saw it for sale on Kobo Books dot com for 99 cents. I was going to send out a tweet or something telling people about it but that sale ended just a couple of days later. I didn't know it was a sale. Anyway there are books going on sale for 99 cents or a dollar each at Kobo Books dot com all the time and there are a number of sci-fi books that are being given away. For example I just bought Lagoon by Nettie Okorafor at Kobo Books dot com. It was on sale for a good price there and there's also I think a novella or a short story by her called Hello Moto. You can get that there as well. I also bought Legion by Brandon Sanderson and there were three free books that I downloaded Exigency by Michael Seamson, Perception by Lee Strauss, Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A. Carver. I don't know anything about these books. I don't know anything about these authors but we'll see. I just started reading Lagoon earlier today by the way and it's good so far. So in February while we're still talking about e-books I read Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins. I read it because they were covering it at hppodcraft.com or witchhousemedia.com. In fact they spent four weeks talking about it for consecutive episodes. Strange book. I may give it a review of its own myself. Now a book that I talked about this month on Tumblr, A Darkling Sea. I think I mentioned it at the last monthly roundup. I checked this out at the local library. I'd seen it on the shelf a few times and passed it by. I decided to finally get it. It's pretty good. I enjoyed it all the way through. I'll definitely review it. Books that I bought at the library gift shop. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. People sure talked about this an awful lot. I really don't know anything about it or about this author but we'll see. The Bradbury Report by Stephen Polanski. I know nothing about it at all. It was a dollar. It says here, destined to take its place besides such classics of speculative fiction as 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale. That's a big talk. I can't imagine any book living up to that. But we'll see. Speaking of Handmaid's Tale, I remember reading parts of this once before and I liked it. I'll start over. A double book in another country by Robert Silverberg and Vintage Season by C. L. Moore. I know both of these authors don't know these particular stories. Shane by Jack Schaefer. A western novel, thin one. I would never buy a western novel but the name of this story is so famous, 50 cents I couldn't pass it up. Another big hardback book for a dollar. One of our Thursdays is missing by Jasper Ford. I've heard about this author quite a bit. I read a short story by him not long ago called The Locked Room Mystery Mystery. And this looks like it's the same kind of idea. Got these in the mail. Volumes four and five of Saga, the graphic novels. They continue to be good. Not quite as interesting as the first two volumes or first three but still good. And then I got volumes two and three of The Wicked and the Divine in the mail. I haven't gotten to these yet. I liked volume one. A e-van vote quest for the future. Ordered this from alibris.com. That's where I get most of my used books through the mail by the way. Alibris.com or eBay. Don't know anything about this. Great cover though. And Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I've read some of Neil Gaiman's short stories. Never read any novels by him. He's hit and miss as far as short stories go. His stories are always disturbing. Usually in a sexual manner. And I have to think this will be the same. I know you've been looking at this for the past couple minutes. This is not by me and this has nothing to do with my channel. It's by Philip Trippenbach. It's called 30 Second Sci-Fi. Which is by coincidence. He has a Tumblr where he writes super short science fiction stories that will take you about 30 seconds to read. That's why they're called 30 Second Sci-Fi. When I saw that he had a printed version that collected his stories I bought it immediately. 365 stories of a science fiction nature. So he was writing one a day. But there they are. One story per page. The address of his Tumblr is 30SecSF. So see we both had different ways of uh or abbreviating our titles I should say. So we haven't crossed paths really that much. Anyway give him a look. That is it I think for this month. So I will go on and do the first book review for March. See you then. You can support 30 Second Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There is a link in the description below. 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