2026 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). A hedge-sorcerer is dying, and the Temple has a use for her demon, if the demon agrees. Meanwhile, a blinded cavalryman comes seeking healing…
I've found myself thinking lately about loops.
I recently had occasion to write up a quick introduction to Cthulhu Eternal for a group I play with, and thought it might be more broadly useful.
2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants to.
Was Friday's message suitable content for an emergency alert?
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.)
1968 war, dir. Brian G. Hutton, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood: IMDb. The captured general has to be got out of the impregnable fortress. Or does he?
2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big House is found dead beside the road, though it's not a hit and run. When his flat is checked, there's another corpse, and the only thing that seems to connect them is an enthusiasm for moths.
Just before sunset? How could I not, really?
More gaming with nearby friends.
2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a pilgrimage site on the rogue world of Aaa, and the main reason anyone goes there. Then the Radchaai decide that it's ripe for annexation…
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved word and character counting. (Note that this ends today.)
2025 fantasy. The Cloak of Sunset and Starlight is a major artifact—meaning it has a mind of its own. It's been sitting in the vault of the Order of the Open Eye since its last wielder died, but here comes an apprentice wizard who looks interesting…
2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien species. By the time she gets to the world, one of them has been killed…
1943 mystery/thriller, fifth in the Miss Silver series. Laura Fane is newly of age, and in London to take charge of her inheritance. She meets a smashing young man, and all seems promising; but her distant cousin and social butterfly Tanis Lyle seems to regard the chap as her property. Oh, and there will be a murder.
I went back to camp at Shrewkfest.
2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom has disappeared from his room and later turned up, well, some of him has turned up, floating in the canals. But why would he even have been a target?
Well, it took longer to sort out than it should have.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversion and string analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
2016 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, tenth in the Logan McRae series. A missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods, killed and arranged in a very specific way associated with a particular out-of-town drug boss. And Wee Hamish Mowat, who's ruled Aberdeen's underworld for years, is on his deathbed…