1954 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Grace Kelly: IMDb / allmovie. Laid up after an accident, photographer "Jeff" Jefferies becomes suspicious of the goings-on in the apartment opposite.
2022 short stand-alone modern fantasy novel. Gadriel, the Fallen Angel of Petty Temptations, has a debt to pay off, so ends up having to tempt Holly Harker. Just a little bit.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a date calculation and run-length encoding. (Note that this ends today.)
1960 horror, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh;: IMDb / allmovie. Faced with unbearable temptation, Marion Crane steals some money from her employer and flees the city. Tired and wrung out, she stops for the night at a motel…
More gaming with nearby friends.
2018 SF, second of an ongoing series. Jake Stewart messes up an easy job and gets drafted as prison labour…
1949 black comedy, dir. Robert Hamer, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness: IMDb / allmovie. Growing up in poverty after his mother was cast off by her family for marrying unwisely and below herself, Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini determines to have his revenge.
I've been writing Python since 2020, mostly for the Weekly Challenge small programming problems, and there are things that irk me about it
2022 urban fantasy, eighth and at the time last of its series. Lydia Crow knows who's causing all her problems, so she will continue to ignore them.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various sorts of array searching. (Note that this ends today.)
Back to the boardgame café.
The Grand Senate controls the Terran Federation, but is hopelessly corrupt. When one of the Federation's admirals leads an attack on Earth, he is just barely beaten back, and so his forces need to be suppressed…
2013 police procedural mystery, more or less. After an unspecified incident, Smith has refused to retire as everyone expected and has instead taken a demotion to Detective Sergeant and a load of trivial casework: community liaison, school lectures on how drugs are bad, and signing off on an accidental drowning…
2023 non-fiction, autobiography. Patrick Stewart recounts his life story, from childhood and early years as an aspiring actor to success and wide acclaim.
2019 Ruritanian fantasy-romance, fourth of its series. Rozild is dismissed from her post as a laundry maid for "unnatural behaviour", but finds a new if parlous position as apprentice to a dressmaker.
The sixth issue of the GURPS fanzine The Path of Cunning is out.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array rebuilding and combinations. (Note that this ends today.) I did this in fewer languages than usual because of UK Games Expo, but I included my favourites.
2006 romance/SF/mystery; third of its series but effectively stand-alone. Elly St Clair was engaged to the local Guild boss, Cooper Boone, but things went wrong and she left the small town for the big city. Now he has to go to the city, and getting her back is only part of his mission.
2024 romantic fantasy novelette, first of a new series. Margaret Dunhaven has married in haste to prevent her family's ruin, and is now Lady Riven, wife of the infamous vampire lord. Well, at least he has a library.
I keep going back to the UK Games Expo. With images; cc-by-sa-nc on everything.
2016 historical adventure, last of its trilogy. Margaret Fitzroy's father has reappeared, but some of her enemies are now in high places, and everyone may have been lying to her.
1983 fantasy, second of the very loose Lyra series. Ranira is a bond (more or less indentured) servant in Drinn, which is ruled by the Temple of Chaldon. Then some foreigners take a room at the inn where she works, and everything is turned on its head.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved light parsing and tax bracket calculations. (Note that this ends today.)