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The Weekly Challenge 214: A Rank Collection 30 April 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved score ranking and sequence manipulation. (Note that this is open until 30 April 2023.)

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Mad Max Fury Road (2015) 29 April 2023 - 4 comments

2015 action, dir. George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron: IMDb / allmovie. Who killed the world?

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City of Bones, Martha Wells 28 April 2023

1995 post-apocalyptic fantasy. Charisat is the greatest of the cities in the Great Waste, and a centre for the trade of Ancient relics. Khat and Sagai are relic-dealers, as much as they can be when (as non-citizens) it would be illegal for them to use coinage. But a Patrician demands Khat's services as a guide in the Waste…

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Thirsty Meeples March 2023 27 April 2023

Back to the boardgame café.

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On the Loose, Christopher Fowler 26 April 2023

2009 police procedural mystery/horror, seventh in the Bryant and May series. A headless body is found in an empty shop; someone dressed in a deerskin, with knives for antlers, is terrifying people on the construction site north of King's Cross. Where is the PCU when you need it?

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 25 April 2023

1979 action, dir. George Miller/George Ogilvie, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner: IMDb / allmovie. We don't need another hero.

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The Warrior's Knife, Eric Thomson 24 April 2023

2017 SF/mystery, first of an ongoing series. Caelin Morrow is an Inspector in the Professional Compliance Bureau, dedicated to rooting out dirty officials (even among the police). But when an alien ambassador is murdered, that lands on her plate too.

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The Weekly Challenge 213: Shortest Fun 23 April 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved an unusual sort and a pathfinding problem. (Note that this is open until 23 April 2023.)

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Airecon in 2023 22 April 2023 - 1 comment

I went to this year's Airecon – my sixth visit to the show. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.

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Escaping Amnthra, Kristine Kathryn Rusch 21 April 2023 - 1 comment

2020 science fiction novelette, in the Diving Universe series. An incident during the voyage of The Renegat.

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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1985) 20 April 2023 - 5 comments

1981 action, dir. George Miller, Mel Gibson, Vernon Wells: IMDb / allmovie. After the end of the world, you can still get petrol and spiked leather. US vt The Road Warrior.

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The Lion's Circle, Amelia Ellis 19 April 2023 - 1 comment

2011 thriller, first of an ongoing series; translated from the original German by Rachel Ward. Nea Fox is a private investigator, going in undercover to a weekend gathering in a house said to be haunted. It's all going to get much more complicated.

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Dustbin Day, iCalendar, and PhantomJS 18 April 2023

I wanted to get dustbin collection days into the house calendar server. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

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Designs on Life, Elizabeth Ferrars 17 April 2023

1980 collection of short stories (written between 1940 and 1980) with murder as a theme.

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The Weekly Challenge 212: Rearrange by Jumps 16 April 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved letter rearrangement and number grouping. (Note that this is open until 16 April 2023.)

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GURPS Space Atlas: Grissom 15 April 2023

Even more stuff by me that you can buy! Unless you have it already.

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Jillian vs Parasite Planet, Nicole Kornher-Stace 14 April 2023

2021 children's SF. Jillian is eleven, and going to visit her parents for Take Your Children To Work Day. Her parents explore other planets…

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Marlow Board Games 6 March 2023 13 April 2023

This Meetup-based boardgames group continues to meet in the Britannia.

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A Fountain Filled With Blood, Julia Spencer-Fleming 12 April 2023

2003 mystery. The small New York town of Miller's Kill is seeing gay-bashing incidents which escalate until someone's killed. But how does this tie to rumours of contamination at the site of a new holiday resort?

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Mad Max 11 April 2023

1979 action, dir. George Miller, Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel: IMDb / allmovie. Oil is running out, but there are still cops.

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Splintegrate, Deborah Teramis Christian 10 April 2023

2019 SF, a loose sequel to Mainline. Kes is the top dominatrix at the top club on the planet, but one of her clients has attracted the wrong sort of attention.

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The Weekly Challenge 211: Splitting Toeplitz 09 April 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved matrix evaluation and integer searching. (Note that this closes today.)

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Spotlight 08 April 2023 - 1 comment

2015 drama, dir. Tom McCarthy, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo: IMDb / allmovie. The Boston Globe's investigative team is going to get to the bottom of this story no matter who tells them to lay off.

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The Game Beyond, Melissa Scott 07 April 2023

1984 SF. The Empress is dead… and, lacking an heir, has left the Empire to her latest favourite. But can he force the nobles to take him seriously?

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Marlow Board Games 20 February 2023 06 April 2023

This Meetup-based boardgames group continues to meet in the Britannia.

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A Question of Faith, Glynn Stewart 05 April 2023

2020 space-navy SF, stand-alone novella in the Castle Federation series. Before the last big war, an admiral has to decide who set up the obvious trap.

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Edge of Tomorrow 04 April 2023 - 4 comments

2014 science fiction, dir. Doug Liman, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt; IMDb / allmovie. Groundhog Day meets Aliens.

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Edge of the Future, Andria Stone 03 April 2023

2017 SF/thriller, first of an ongoing series. Mark Warren is a researcher in a top secret facility which gets attacked by terrorists, and things spin out from there.

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The Weekly Challenge 210: Collisions Kill 02 April 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved searching in lists of integers. (Note that this closes today.)

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March 2023 Trailers 01 April 2023

Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: I want a trailer to tell me what's different about this film; the marketers want it to tell me why it's like all the others…)

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