1993 animated action, dir. Henry Selick, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara: IMDb. The bored ruler of Halloween Town discovers Christmas, and wants to do that too.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string relations and binary numbers. (Note that this ends today.)
I did Advent of Code again, and had a really good time again. Spoilers.
1910 fantasy for children. The next summer, Dan and Una meet Puck again.
2025 romantic mystery. To keep Ravensea Castle in the family, the latest generation have built part of it out into a bed and breakfast, in spite of some local opposition. The first guests are about to arrive, and people will soon start dying…
I've been doing Everybody Codes, a set of programming challenges in the style of Advent of Code, now in its second year.
2021 romantic fantasy short stories, eight scenes before and after the events of Eclipse.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved doing disconcerting things with arrays. (Note that this ends today.)
2022 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Zelia Ptishva is a World Walker, one of the people who link the worlds of Reality together; she's rushing with a valuable crystal back to the World Walker Synod. When she runs into a chaos storm, she takes shelter in a sorcerer's inter-world House… which would be worrying enough without her secretly being a sorcerer herself.
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 4.
More gaming with nearby friends.
1952 classic SF, collection of shorter works. The Foundation, the organisation from which the second Galactic Empire will be born, continues to stumble along the road of Seldon's Plan. Spoilers for a 73-year-old book.
1928 crime, dir. Bryan Foy, Cullen Landis, Helene Costello; IMDb / allmovie. What do you do when you find you're taking the fall for a bootlegger? Hope for a gun from the shadows.
2019 fantasy novella. The rumoured Wild Man of Greenhollow Wood is a legend that has grown in the telling; but Tobias Finch just wants to be left alone with his cat and the dryads. When the young folklorist who's just bought the Hall comes to visit, that'll cause problems…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string fragments and numerical anagrams. (Note that this ends today.)
2025 romance/SF/mystery; 61st novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). A failed artist has worked out how to make the art world truly appreciate his paintings: the deaths of the models.
1927 musical, dir. Alan Crosland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy; IMDb / allmovie. Will the good Jewish boy have a dazzling entertainment career or stay true to his roots? Both!
2022 short horror novel. Alex Easton has been called to the ancestral home of Roderick Usher, who served under him in the war. Roderick's sister Madeline is very ill…
2014 police procedural mystery novella, tartan noir, in the Logan McRae series. On the night of the Scottish independence referendum, McRae is trying to track down a missing "no" campaigner. But the next morning, he's going to wake up hung over, naked, in a strange bed, with his boss…