The Weekly Challenge 386: A Rational Reverse
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges . The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.)
RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
Latest posts
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
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?
The Moth Catcher, Ann Cleeves
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.
Total Solar Eclipse, August 2026
Just before sunset? How could I not, really?
Neighbourly Games 10 August
More gaming with nearby friends.
Radiant Star, Ann Leckie
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…
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
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…
The Weekly Challenge 385: Uncommon Parentheses
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges . The latest involved word and character counting. (Note that this ends today.)
The Cloak and Its Wizard, R. Z. Nicolet
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…
A House By Any Other Name, Jenny Schwartz
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…