More gaming with nearby friends.
2095 romance/SF/mystery novella; in the Ghost Hunters series. Virginia Burch rented the office upstairs from Sam Gage, and now they're merging their businesses in order to hold on to the house in an area ripe for redevelopment. But that's not all…
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 2.
2020 fantasy romance, second of its series. Effie is a housemaid who's fallen for the youngest son of the Family. She knows perfectly well it's impossible. Until she meets a fae who is determined to help her.
Not many people run their own internal DNS any more. For people who do, here's now I do it.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved an array mapping and a custom sort. (Note that this ends today.)
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 2.
Here are the answers to last year's quiz.
1928 mystery/thriller. Charles Moray was jilted by Margaret Langton on the eve of their wedding; he threw himself into exploration, and has just returned to London. Meanwhile, a silly young woman is called back from her finishing school after the death of her father…
While visiting friends on Plymouth, we went to Twist, the local boardgame café.
2024 non-fiction. Zinoviev introduces the core functions of seven programming languages that are now, for various reasons, little-known.
2006 mystery/thriller, tartan noir. Years ago in Arbroath, David's best friend Colin died in an accident just as he was about to become a professional footballer. David ran away from the memories and made a new life for himself in Edinburgh. But now there's going to be a school reunion.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved substitution and windowing. (Note that this ends today.)
2024 fantasy-romance, second of what may be an ongoing series. The world is much like our own, only it has witches in it. Becca is one of the ancient Ashworth family, and the ghost she summoned for advice on a complicated magical problem has got loose; Connor is a strong-arm man for the Witches' Council, who don't get on with the Ashworths… and they will end up working together.
1969 English detective fiction; twentieth of the novels of Albert Campion, from an idea by Margery Allingham but written after her death by her husband. "Turrets" is kept up in High Victorian style as a sort of hotel for period weekend breaks, but a notable Soviet scientist vanished while staying there, and several parties are taking an interest.
2024 fantasy, first of its series. Rae is dying of cancer when she is given a choice: be dropped into her sister's favourite fantasy series Time of Iron, complete a task, and be healed and back in her own body (or stuck there if she fails). Of course she takes it. Pity she never actually read the first book…
2022 romance, first of a trilogy. Delilah got out of the tiny Oregon town of Bright Falls the instant she could, building an art-photography career in New York and leaving her perfect stepsister Astrid with the rest of the Mean Girls. But now Astrid is getting married and wants to employ her as photographer, and Delilah could really use the money…
1991 SF, second of its series. "Star" Svensdotter, having finished supervising the construction of the first L5 habitat, is now taking a small fleet to the Belt to try to secure a more reliable supply of materials for the second.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved permuting integers and searching lists. (Note that this ends today.)
Back to the boardgame café.
1978 comedy anthology, consisting of Mortimer's adaptations of his own scripts from the first season of the television series. Rumpole is an ageing barrister who somehow prevails over everything life can throw at him.
Back to the Masonic Hall for a chilly weekend. (Well, in the outside world anyway.)
2014 Ruritanian fantasy short story. Before the events of Daughter of Mystery, Barbara attends the opera while her master the Baron is away.
2013 YA gaslamp fantasy, first of a pair though it stands alone. Emilie is fleeing from her guardians when she stows away on the wrong ship, and finds herself part of an expedition to the world within the world…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string searching and sequence analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
2013 Regency romance novella. Hecuba Jones is stealing back paintings that were to be her inheritance, sold by her uncle. But the younger brother of the Earl catches her… vt Color Me Bad.
In 2024 I went to fewer conventions but got to play a bit more at home.
In 2024 I read 186 books (most novel-length, a few separate novellas and short stories); after a strong start to the year I slowed down a lot later, for no obvious reason.
A friend likes to sum up his year in a set number of words, and I copy this fine idea. "Think of it as a short and un-boastful summary of the year, which nobody is expected to understand all of."