 Okay kids, it is New Year's Eve 2014 and I'm going to do my December Roundup. Got a lot of books to talk about here, so we'll just go through them real quick. Edge of Tomorrow. English version of All You Need Is Kill and it has the movie cover on it. I've already read it. It's pretty good. I had planned on having a combined book and movie review done already, but I'll do it probably next week. The Hard Science Fiction Renaissance. I showed this book briefly in my last book list video. 960 pages, a collection of science fiction stories edited by David G. Hartwell and Catherine Kramer. I like David G. Hartwell's taste. I think he puts together excellent anthology books. And I'm going to review this and some of his others at some point. Singularity by William Slater. I owned this book and read it back in the 90s. I must have traded it or given it away at some point because I didn't have anymore. I always remembered it, wanted to read it again. Got it a couple of weeks ago, re-read it. Very short. Look how short it is. This book was written for, all of William Slater's books are written for teenagers. This one reads like it's written for even younger audiences. But I vividly remembered it and I remembered it correctly. It's very good. It's another one of those things where William Slater, he does something that I don't expect. I'll talk about it at some point. Barlow's Guide to Extraterrestrials. Got it this month. Already did a review of it. James Tiptree, Jr. Her Smoke Grows Up Forever. This is an anthology of James Tiptree, Jr.'s work. Real name Alice B. Sheldon. Ah. How do you describe the work of James Tiptree, Jr.? You can't. You just have to read it. This is one of my favorite all-time stories. I've mentioned it several times before. The Screwfly Solution, which she wrote under the pseudonym Raccoon Sheldon. Also, other stories of note, stories that I've read. I've never read any of her novels. I've read plenty of her stories, though. I would say Love is the Plan. The Plan is Death. Slow Music. Houston, Houston, Do You Read? The Women Men Don't See. Very significant story. I will review this at some point. Space Skimmer by David Gerald. Got this at the local shop. I don't know anything about it. I recognize the name David Gerald from the original Land of the Lost television show. He wrote a lot of episodes, or directed. I don't exactly remember. I'll get a screencap of his credit on that show. So I'm looking forward to this. Neuromancer by William Gibson. I've never read it. One of the most famous science fiction books of all time. I've never read it. I'll find out. And I'll let you know. Coachman Rat got this month. I owned this book back in the 90s. Lost track of it. Don't know what I did with it. It's one of those books that went missing. I would never have given away this book, and yet it was missing from my shelf. So I got another copy. It's one of those that's not difficult to find. Since I first read this book, I don't think there's a day it goes by that I don't think about it. This is an amazing book. I actually recorded a review of it earlier this month, and then I threw out the review. I decided I wanted to do a better job of it because it deserves it. I'll talk about it someday. Josephine Saxton, Queen of the States. The Women's Press Science Fiction. I don't know anything about this book. And I forget where I saw it mentioned. Incidentally, I saw somebody mention it somewhere online because I put it on my list of things to acquire. This was not a dollar book. It took me quite some time to wait until a good bargain on this book came along. I ended up paying like $7 or $8 for it. The same here, Memoirs of a Space Woman by Naomi Mitchison. I know where I heard about this book. It was in the Barlow's Guide. One of the things I mentioned in the Barlow's Guide review where I had determined at some point that I would get every book that was mentioned in the Barlow's Guide. And this is one of them. Again, I had to wait months for a good bargain on this book to come along. Not a dollar book. I really look forward to reading this. Roger Zalazny, Damn Nation Alley. I read this before, and I remember liking it. I remember it being very different from the movie. I'm not a fan of Roger Zalazny's work, but I remember liking this book. Usually when I pick up a Zalazny book or a Zalazny story, I get a little ways into it and put it down because I just can't stand it. But I'll try to reread this and see what it was I liked about it before. I know you're looking at the Mort Drucker book, but I'll get to it. Ursula K. Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness. This was on the shelf at the local shop. I've never read it. I've read about it. We'll see what it's like. The only Ursula K. Le Guin novel that I've read is The Word for World is Forest, and it was good. Flatterland. One of my viewers mentioned this when I did the review of Flatland. And I was curious about it because I had read about it myself, so I went and got a copy. Another one of my viewers asked me on Twitter what I thought of the book, and I said I haven't gotten to it yet. And it'll probably be some time before I do get to it. It's a thick book, and it looks like it's very dense, very involved. So I'll have to set aside some time to read it, and it could take a while. There's some topology diagrams there. This is from a library. I love it when libraries stamp books discarded like this. I love it. It gives a book legitimacy, I think. This is not a new book. I've had this for years. The Eleventh Commandment by Lester Del Rey. I read about half of it years and years ago, and I lost track of it. I didn't know where it was. I thought it was one of those books that I'd lost, but I found it down in the corner on the shelf here. It's exactly what it says. A remorselessly logical novel of when the church takes over. Very unnerving. I'll reread it someday and let you know what happens. I picked this up at the Dollar Store. The Dollar Store has a rack full of really bad romance novels. They often, for some reason, include these science fiction series novels with jokes and puns for titles. Gentlemen prefer Succubi. I don't know. Maybe I'll read some of these someday. I have a stack of them. Maybe. We'll see. I acquired some current Savage Dragon comics. I had a complete collection of Savage Dragon comics that went from the beginning, from issue number one in the early 90s all the way up through the mid-2000s. I sold off very large portions of my comics collections to pay my rent a while back, and this is one of the collections that had to go. I've started rebuilding the collection and started reading this new. I've always loved this book. Eric Larson's art. He's been self-publishing this writing and drawing since the beginning, which makes him one of the longest live self-publishers in comics history, which is a proud accomplishment. He has a real classic Silver Age Jack Kirby look and feel to him. I've always loved it. I really want to get back into reading this stuff. I got this off eBay after I saw somebody mention it online. As you can imagine, it's very exciting. This guy, Mort Drucker, this guy's work is the best. For people who have worked as caricatures, like myself, Mort Drucker defines caricature. He's the best. He's just hands down the best. This is a collection of Mort Drucker stories from Mad Magazine that goes all the way up to nearly current books. Here's some Harry Potter stories. Wow. Look at this. What a tremendous artist. There's John Cleese. Is John Cleese in those movies? I did not know that. It shows you how out of touch I am with Harry Potter. Never read any of those books, never saw any of the movies. And I probably never will read the books. So there. Anyway, big stack of stuff. Last roundup of the year, 2014. Good riddance to 2014. I say it wasn't the worst year in the world for me, but for a lot of people. It was a terrible year. And I felt a lot of other people's pain. So, looking forward to the next year. I'll do some sort of review or some sort of list video or something next week. See you then. And happy new year.