I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list partitioning and a progressive score calculator. (Note that this ends today.)
1950 Japanese drama, dir. Akira Kurosawa, Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō; IMDb / allmovie. Strangers meet at a ruined city gate, and various accounts of events in the woods get re-told.
2025 SF, sixteenth of its series. The enemy will be coming for Chimera; how much of its population can be evacuated before they arrive?
2024 paranormal fantasy, fourth of a nine-book series. Lorelei has, as she feared, drawn the wrong sort of attention.
2024 action, dir. George Miller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth: IMDb / allmovie. How did Imperator Furiosa get to be who she was at the start of Fury Road?
1997 mystery, ninth of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. Meredith's old friend Sally, and her prickly scientist husband, have come to live in a nearby village, and he's promptly set everyone's backs up. But a letter bomb seems a bit of an extreme response…
2019 Norwegian disaster film, dir. Andreas Andersen, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp: IMDb / allmovie. Kristian Eikjord is a hero after the events of Bølgen, but his life has fallen apart. Now he's got another bee in his bonnet, about the geology underpinning Oslo…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved character sieving and noughts and crosses. (Note that this ends today.)
I have contributed to an APA. Not a thing I expected to do at my time of life…
More gaming with nearby friends.
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.
I went to Airecon Northwest again, in the convention centre in central Manchester. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.
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.
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…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array slicing and point filtering. (Note that this ends today.)
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…
I did this migration a little while back. Many people have decided to move since. Here's some detail of how I did it.
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…
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.
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.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved Cartesian coordinates and a light sequence modification. (Note that this ends today.)
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…
I went to Shrewkfest. And camped there.
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.
2024 mystery story, eighth of the Lady Sherlock series. Charlotte Holmes is accused of murder, and the circumstances are explained in flashback.
2014 fantasy anthology: four stories of the Raksura.
2024 SF, fifteenth of its series. Tension rises in the remote Chimera system, while everyone waits for the inevitable alien attack.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string conversion and analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
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…