1981 horror, dir. Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Patrick MacNee: IMDb / allmovie. After Karen the news anchor has a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, she and her husband go to her therapist's retreat centre in the countryside…| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2022 SF, first of a loose series. Dr Alexi Sur enlists with the Pax Galactica Corps, the first-contact arm of Universal Society that got in touch with Earth ten years ago but has been largely ignored. But it turns out they don't just want a trauma surgeon, they want a reality TV star.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various string parsings. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
After several months of clashing schedules and in one case a breakdown, back to the boardgame café.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2025 modern fantasy. Dr Saffy Walden is Head of Magic at Chetwood, a long-established public school; most of her time is spent in administration, but she does teach Invocation to a select group in their final year. Everyone goes to a lot of trouble to keep the children safe from demons| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
1948 Regency romance. Gilly, or Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware the Duke of Sale, was a sickly child, and has been brought up in luxury but thoroughly insulated from the world. About to come of age, and feeling his arranged marriage locking him further into other people's expectations, he determines to live just for a little while as an ordinary person.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
Back to ACWest, which has returned to the Ramada, a small and comfortable venue. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2025 SF. Erika Kiora is an exploration corps officer whose last posting ended in disaster and the loss of her ship. But war is brewing, and the government needs heroes, so she's given a new ship to survey for a possible new route past the front lines.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
1942 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Simone Simon, Kent Smith: IMDb / allmovie. What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string and set manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
2012 collection of two police procedural stories, tartan noir, in the Logan McRae series. Life goes from bad to worse in Police Scotland.| RogerBW's Blog
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I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array pairs and accumulation. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and matrix incrementing. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array slicing and point filtering. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
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…| RogerBW's Blog
High Wycombe's in-town shopping centre is called Eden. This offends me, but perhaps not in the obvious way.| RogerBW's Blog
Notes on Mongoose's Bayern 6: Derelict| blog.firedrake.org
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, eighth in the Logan McRae series. A man turns up burned to death, gangland style; someone's beating up Asian drug dealers; oh, and two teenage lovers haven't been seen for a few days. Logan McRae will, ultimately, solve all of these cases…| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sets and combinations. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a date calculation and run-length encoding. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
2024 non-fiction. Zinoviev introduces the core functions of seven programming languages that are now, for various reasons, little-known.| RogerBW's Blog
1978 comedy anthology, consisting of Mortimer's adaptations of his own scripts from the first season of the television series. Rumpole is an ageing barrister who somehow prevails over everything life can throw at him.| RogerBW's Blog
1945 Napoleonic naval fiction, fourth written but ninth by internal chronology. Hornblower is settling uncomfortably into rural life when he's given a squadron and sent on a diplomatic and military mission to the Baltic.| RogerBW's Blog
1946 Napoleonic naval fiction, fifth written but tenth by internal chronology. Hornblower is summoned to deal with a mutinous crew on the French blockade.| RogerBW's Blog
2024 romance/SF/mystery; 59th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). At a hen party, one of the prospective brides slips away… and is murdered.| RogerBW's Blog
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, first in the Ash Henderson series. A serial killer takes girls just before their thirteenth birthdays, kills them, and sends a photograph of the process every subsequent year. DC Ash Henderson is really not the man to crack the case.| RogerBW's Blog
2016 fantasy, fourth volume of its series. Cathy seeks allies in her reform of Neither society; Max finds himself showing disconcerting initiative given what's happened to his soul; Sam finds out what the Elemental Court is really up to.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved counting digits and matching bit-counts. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and string merging. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a lot of counting. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved lots of combinatorial searches. (Note that this closes today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved prime counting and list selections. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog