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Neighbourly Games 18 August 22 August 2025

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An Artless Demise, Anna Lee Huber 21 August 2025 - 4 comments

2019 historical mystery; seventh in Huber's Lady Darby series (post-Regency amateur detection). Gage and Lady Darby investigate the murder of a rake which was set up to look like an attempt by resurrection men to obtain a body for dissection—and with London already seething after the failure of the Reform Bill, Lady Darby's past is raked up again.

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Airecon Northwest 20 August 2025

I went to Airecon Northwest again, in the convention centre in central Manchester. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.

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Killer's Wedge, Ed McBain 19 August 2025

1959 police procedural, eighth in the 87th Precinct series. A woman comes into the squad room and holds the detectives hostage with a pistol and a bottle of nitroglycerine.

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Rules for Ruin, Mimi Matthews 18 August 2025

2025 Victorian romance. Euphemia Flite is an orphan brought up in a very special charity school, and forged as a weapon to take down a particular powerful man. But she will find more goals than that for her life…

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The Weekly Challenge 334: All Sums Are Valid 17 August 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array slicing and point filtering. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Charing Cross Mystery, J S Fletcher 16 August 2025

1923 mystery. A young barrister catching the last train home shares his compartment with two strangers having an unusual conversation. THen one of them drops dead, and the other runs away…

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Neighbourly Games 11 August 15 August 2025

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Migrating from Github to Codeberg 14 August 2025

I did this migration a little while back. Many people have decided to move since. Here's some detail of how I did it.

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Lieutenant Hornblower, C. S. Forester 13 August 2025

1952 Napoleonic naval fiction, seventh written and second by internal chronology. As a very junior lieutenant, Hornblower is aboard a ship on her way to the West Indies…

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Captain's Share, Nathan Lowell 12 August 2025

2013 SF, fifth in its series. Ishmael Horatio Wang graduates from First Mate on the ship he put right last book to Captain of yet.another worst ship in the fleet.

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The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, Brigitte Knightley 11 August 2025

2025 romantic fantasy, first of a pair. Osric Mordaunt is an assassin, but finds himself in need of very specialised healing. So specialised that only one person has a chance of doing it; and she's Aurienne Fairhrim, opposed to everything he stands for.

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The Weekly Challenge 333: Duplicate Straights Are a Line of Zeroes 10 August 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved Cartesian coordinates and a light sequence modification. (Note that this ends today.)

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Penric and the Bandit, Lois McMaster Bujold 09 August 2025

2024 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). Roz the bandit has fallen out with his gang, and is looking for a new pigeon to pluck. And the traveller he meets at an inn seems like a good prospective victim. He even has a treasure map…

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Shrewkfest 2025 08 August 2025 - 2 comments

I went to Shrewkfest. And camped there.

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Foundation, Isaac Asimov 07 August 2025 - 2 comments

1951 classic SF, collection of short stories. The Galactic Empire is bound to collapse, and millennia of barbarism will follow. But one man has a plan to shorten that time.

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A Ruse of Shadows, Sherry Thomas 06 August 2025

2024 mystery story, eighth of the Lady Sherlock series. Charlotte Holmes is accused of murder, and the circumstances are explained in flashback.

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Stories of the Raksura Volume One, Martha Wells 05 August 2025

2014 fantasy anthology: four stories of the Raksura.

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Ambassador For Mars, Glynn Stewart 04 August 2025

2024 SF, fifteenth of its series. Tension rises in the remote Chimera system, while everyone waits for the inevitable alien attack.

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The Weekly Challenge 332: Odd Date 03 August 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string conversion and analysis. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Case Is Closed, Patricia Wentworth 02 August 2025 - 2 comments

1937 mystery/thriller. The Everton case has been closed for a year; everyone knows that Geoffrey Grey shot his uncle in a rage at having been disinherited, and even his wife Marion has her doubts of his innocence. But her cousin Hilary meets someone in a train who drops dark hints…

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Neighbourly Games 28 July 01 August 2025

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