I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved pattern matching and a subset search. (Note that this ends today.)
And more to the point, how can you convert it to something useful?
2026 romance/SF/mystery; 62nd novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). After a burglary, the multimillionaire is dead, and his secret vault of stolen treasures has had just one thing taken from it. Eve Dallas investigates.
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!