1994 mystery, fifth in its series. Sheila Malory spends a semester guest-lecturing at a small American university. Of course there are faculty politics, and in particular a hateful pair of brothers. But nobody is expecting one of them to be murdered, still less both… vr Detective In Residence.
1995 science fiction, dir. Kevin Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper: IMDb. The world is covered with water, but there's no shortage of hair product.
I went back to the IWM after some years away, and found myself rather disappointed by the way it's now set up.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved character duplication and number to word conversion. (Note that this ends today.)
2015 mystery collection, second in its series though first published. Lady Hardcastle and her faithful maid Armitage deal with various matters of murder and theft. Previously published as The Spirit Is Willing.
2023 SF, first of its series. Cherry Pendit has told nobody about her oracular gift, but it's been yelling into her mind that she needs to find the man hiding on this particular abandoned space station and help keep him hidden…
Board games are typically classed as "competitive" or "cooperative", but I think there's more gradation possible.
1959 science fiction, dir. Stanley Kramer, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner: IMDb. The bombs have dropped; airborne fallout is poisoning the world, gradually drifting south. What do we do now?
This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Plot Point 4.
2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, second in the Jack Logan series. DCI Logan has transferred to Inverness because Glasgow has too many bad memories for him, and is thrown straight into the investigation of a tortured and mutilated body washed up on the shores of Loch Ness.