2023 epistolary fantastic romance. Victor Beauchêne is disinherited and cast out; Julien Moreau has come to Paris to paint. They will meet, but everything will get terribly complicated…
1944 Regency romance. Needing to marry to gain his inheritance, and refused by the Incomparable Isabella, the young buck Viscount Sheringham plans to marry the first woman he sees. Fortunately this is his childhood friend Hero Wantage, who's always worshipped him from afar.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved strings, numbers and bit counting. (Note that this ends today.)
As has become a tradition, a bunch of us without family commitments got together for boardgames.
2024 fantasy romance, second of its series. The Villain was captured by the king at the end of the previous book, so the first thing for his assistant Evie to do is to rescue him.
I did Advent of Code again, and had a really good time again. Spoilers.
2021 SF, first in a five-book series. The big war is over, but tensions are still high, and the possibility of a gold rush doesn't make life any safer.
In the spirit of the King William's College General Knowledge Paper, released each December for completion over the Christmas break, I offer my own set of questions for the holidays.
2024 Victorian romance, fourth and last in the loose Belles of London series. Stella Hobhouse knows that marriage, any marriage, is her only escape from life as a drudge to her hateful brother. But she did not entirely think through her scandalous plan to colour her prematurely silver hair…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved permutations and array recursion. (Note that this ends today.)
2024 romantic SF, fourth of what was originally a planned trilogy but will now get at least one more book. Vesper Quill and Kyrion Caldaren, with an unbreakable psychic bond that's led the psi-hungry emperor to put a bounty on their heads, flee to a planet that should offer sanctuary…
More gaming with nearby friends.
I did Everybody Codes, a new set of programming challenges in the style of Advent of Code.
2020 urban fantasy, fourth of its series. Lydia Crow is still dealing with the fallout of her last case, but new problems keep coming.
1994 mystery, seventh of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. At the Chelsea Flower Show, the pair run into Meredith's old school friend Rachel (who turns out to be Markby's ex-wife) with her new husband Alex. But it won't be a long acquaintanceship.
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 1.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved manipulations of word lists. (Note that this ends today.)
2020 fantasy, final volume of its trilogy. There's a huge, world-shaking event going on… but is intervening even the right thing to do?
1920 mystery with very mild fantasy elements. Sylvia Ashe lost her job as a journalist when all the men came back from the War, but stumbles into a job with a magical library.
1981 mystery. Virginia Freer runs into an old friend who's planning to get married; she knew him during the breakup of his previous marriage. Several people are going to die…
2023 SF, short fiction in the Arcana Imperii series. Various people work for the DHC (the relatively "good" human government) to find out what's happening in the breakaway mini-empire of New Texas.
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 Interlude 1.
1958 police procedural, seventh in the 87th Precinct series. The 87th gets a note: "I will kill the lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it?"
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various sorts of array hunting. (Note that this ends today.)
I've recently started to run Mongoose's revised version of the 2300AD campaign Bayern, after having obtained it in a Bundle of Holding. Here are some notes I've made to add to the published materials. There are no spoilers here, though there may be in future instalments which deal with specific scenarios.
2019 science fiction novella, in the Chronicles of St Mary's series (time travel). Ian Guthrie is retiring as Head of Security at St Mary's, but first goes on one last jump…
2023 paranormal fantasy novella, first of a series. Bunny Barrington was trying to make a life having run away from her rich parents. She didn't expect to become a vampire.
2023 SF, first of a planned trilogy. The generation ships arrived in the Treble over a thousand years ago. Now rule is a complicated tension between the overall government, the Kindom, and the First Families. Several people are planning to do something about that.
The fifth issue of the GURPS fanzine The Path of Cunning is out.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array hunting and re-permuting. (Note that this ends today.)