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An American Werewolf in London (1981) 16 October 2025

1981 horror, dir. John Landis, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter: IMDb / allmovie. Two American college students go hiking on the Yorkshire moors. One of them comes back.

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Neighbourly Games 14 October 15 October 2025

More gaming with nearby friends.

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The Howling (1981) 14 October 2025

1981 horror, dir. Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Patrick MacNee: IMDb / allmovie. After Karen the news anchor has a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, she and her husband go to her therapist's retreat centre in the countryside…

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Doctor Galaxy, Jenny Schwartz 13 October 2025

2022 SF, first of a loose series. Dr Alexi Sur enlists with the Pax Galactica Corps, the first-contact arm of Universal Society that got in touch with Earth ten years ago but has been largely ignored. But it turns out they don't just want a trauma surgeon, they want a reality TV star.

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The Weekly Challenge 342: Balanced Max Scores the String 12 October 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various string parsings. (Note that this ends today.)

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Thirsty Meeples October 2025 11 October 2025

After several months of clashing schedules and in one case a breakdown, back to the boardgame café.

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The Incandescent, Emily Tesh 10 October 2025

2025 modern fantasy. Dr Saffy Walden is Head of Magic at Chetwood, a long-established public school; most of her time is spent in administration, but she does teach Invocation to a select group in their final year. Everyone goes to a lot of trouble to keep the children safe from demons

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The Foundling, Georgette Heyer 09 October 2025

1948 Regency romance. Gilly, or Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware the Duke of Sale, was a sickly child, and has been brought up in luxury but thoroughly insulated from the world. About to come of age, and feeling his arranged marriage locking him further into other people's expectations, he determines to live just for a little while as an ordinary person.

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Airecon West 08 October 2025

Back to ACWest, which has returned to the Ramada, a small and comfortable venue. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.

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A Desperate Path Through the Stars, M. H. Questus 07 October 2025

2025 SF. Erika Kiora is an exploration corps officer whose last posting ended in disaster and the loss of her ship. But war is brewing, and the government needs heroes, so she's given a new ship to survey for a possible new route past the front lines.

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