1964 war/comedy, dir. Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott: IMDb. After the bombs fall, only three people are left alive… and they can't get on.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a median calculation and box fitting. (Note that this ends today.)
2025 mystery, fifth in its series. As cliffhangered at the end of book 4, Pentecost has been arrested for murder.
2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, fourth in the Jack Logan series. The Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team gets a shout, and finds a body, but not the one they were looking for.
More gaming with nearby friends.
2026 young adult modern fantasy, first of a pair of books. Lydie is the daughter of Death (now retired), but she just wants to work at and eventually take over the café in the tiny town. Don't ask about the door to the Afterlife in the basement.
2021 military SF, first of a series. Cole Shaw signed up because the alternative was waiting to die on his failing colony planet. Now he drives a mech.
2025 fantasy. The Evil Mage has been killed, and presumably his minions too. And there's no reason for anyone to link Violet, the newcomer in town who just wants to open a florist's shop, with the terrifying Thornwitch.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a string decompression and permutations. (Note that this ends today.)
2022 modern fantasy, first of a series. Niki McKnight has been widowed for a year when her witchy grandmother dies and leaves her her house on the Scottish borders. But somehow nobody will tell her exactly what's going on…
1999 mystery, twelfth of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. The wife of a local farmer is found stabbed to death in the woods. He admits they weren't getting on. But of course it's not that simple.
Back to one of my favourite conventions, still at the Royal Highland Centre next to Edinburgh airport.
2026 science fiction, first of a planned series. Torian Razner has been saving up for years to buy a starship and move her sister out of the bad-quality air that's killing her. But she hasn't saved very much, so she gets the weird ship.
2017 mystery, third in its series. Lady Armitage and her maid Florence go to Lord Riddlethorpe's estate for a week of parties and motor racing. But death soon follows…
1951 adventure/romance, dir. John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn: IMDb. After the African mission is destroyed, the survivor is determined to strike back at the Hun.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array shuffling and subarrays. (Note that this ends today.)
2024 urban fantasy novells, part of a series. Dr Greta Helsing is relaxing with her husband (Varney the Vampire) when a newly-turned and abandoned vampire comes to their attention…
2024 science fiction novella, second of a trilogy. Ada is back on the job, infiltrating a museum gala in order to do… something.
2023 fantasy novella. The fairy has been guarding the wall of thorns around the keep where the princess sleeps, and then the knight arrives.
2026 SF. Forty years ago the world fell apart. Our narrator, who remembers it, just wants to be left alone to study ants. But someone has stolen its leg…
1962 Napoleonic naval fiction, tenth written and third by internal chronology. It's 1802, and the Peace of Amiens is breaking down; Commander Hornblower is given a sloop and sent to the blockade of Brest.