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Laura (1944) 11 May 2026

1944 noir, dir. Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews: IMDb. The dame is dead, blown away with a shotgun at her front door. But who would have done it?

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The Weekly Challenge 372: Space is the Largest Place 10 May 2026

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

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Testimony of Mute Things, Lois McMaster Bujold 09 May 2026

2025 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). Early in Pen's career, when he's still a sorcerer-physician in Martensbridge, he's attached to his archdivine's party as she travels to judge a temple dispute as the administration adjusts following a transfer of territory in a local war.

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Leaping From Helicopter To Helicopter 08 May 2026 - 1 comment

Leaping from tree to tree is easy. I encountered something in a game which should be rather harder.

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Dice and Meeples number one is out 07 May 2026 - 2 comments

The first issue of Of Dice and Meeples is now out.

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The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling 06 May 2026

2021 urban fantasy romance, first of a trilogy. Nine years ago Vivienne had a summer thing with Rhys, youngest son of the Welsh family that founded the small and magical Georgia town of Grave Glen. It ended badly in vodka and cursing. Now Rhys is coming back for the Founder's Day festivities, and it seems that the curse may have had some effect…

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How To Expo 05 May 2026 - 2 comments

UK Games Expo is coming up again. I've been going to it since 2009, when it was in the Masonic Hall (now I think demolished) and very much smaller, and I think I have some potentially useful suggestions on how to get the most out of it.

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Why Planes Crash Case Files 2003, Sylvia Wrigley 04 May 2026 - 2 comments

2016 non-fiction, aviation history. Wrigley looks into a number of aircraft incidents.

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The Weekly Challenge 371: Missing Equilibrium 03 May 2026

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved pattern matching and a subset search. (Note that this ends today.)

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What is a Traveller ton 02 May 2026 - 3 comments

And more to the point, how can you convert it to something useful?

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