More gaming with nearby friends.
The Imperial Russian monitor Novgorod, sole ship of her class, was in service from 1874 until 1903; Popov, similarly, from 1876 to 1903.
1941 mystery/thriller, fourth in the Miss Silver series. Lisle Jerningham is newly married, but nervy; someone who knows her husband's family has been talking meaningly about how convenient for him it would be if she died in an accident like his first wife, and she has just had a near-fatal accident… US vt In the Balance.
1984 SF comedy, dir. W. D. Richter, Peter Weller, John Lithgow: IMDb. The Oscillation Overthruster allows passage through solid objects… but it may lead to the end of the world.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved word counting and character swapping. (Note that this ends today.)
The free-trading tramp starship is a standard element in Traveller, but was never a part of the 2300AD setting. Mongoose's version does suggest that it might now be a thing, though. Can their rules support it?
1920 adventurous SF novel. Bored after the War, "The Master" determines to gather some like-minded people and find Adventure!
2021 historical detection short stories, in Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series (1920s flapper detective in Australia).
2024 SF/romance, sixth in (and a late addition to) the Class 5 series. Dav, Sazo and a pregnant Rose are on the expedition to make contact with the race that built Irini, the thinking-system ship recovered from thieves in Dark Class. But then Rose is kidnapped…
This will be about the biggest naval gun ever. Eventually.