More gaming with nearby friends.
2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a pilgrimage site on the rogue world of Aaa, and the main reason anyone goes there. Then the Radchaai decide that it's ripe for annexation…
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved word and character counting. (Note that this ends today.)
2025 fantasy. The Cloak of Sunset and Starlight is a major artifact—meaning it has a mind of its own. It's been sitting in the vault of the Order of the Open Eye since its last wielder died, but here comes an apprentice wizard who looks interesting…
2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien species. By the time she gets to the world, one of them has been killed…
1943 mystery/thriller, fifth in the Miss Silver series. Laura Fane is newly of age, and in London to take charge of her inheritance. She meets a smashing young man, and all seems promising; but her distant cousin and social butterfly Tanis Lyle seems to regard the chap as her property. Oh, and there will be a murder.
I went back to camp at Shrewkfest.
2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom has disappeared from his room and later turned up, well, some of him has turned up, floating in the canals. But why would he even have been a target?
Well, it took longer to sort out than it should have.