DCS Kat Frank of the Warwickshire police, back too early from bereavement leave, demands her boss put her back to work. Fine; he saddles her with the first AI policeman and sets them to work on cold cases involving missing people, mostly as a way to totally disprove the utility of AI in police work.…
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Lagniappe Sunday
I’ve just discovered The Thing About Austen podcast and am busily bingeing it as I winter-proof (heh) the yard. I began at the beginning, way back in 2022, and so far I can tell you that Ep.2 (The Thing about Wentworth’s Umbrella) and Ep.6 (The Thing About Darcy’s Pen) are insightful, hilarious and not to…
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The Roadhouse Report – September 2026
Another itsy-bitsy excerpt… "How are you, Clemens?" "All the better for seeing you, Harvey, even if I did arrive behind one of your confounded steam engines, belching cinders the whole way. Stagecoaching is infinitely more delightful." "Yes, yes, I know, we are the devil’s work." Order for Kindle US…
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Let’s get this Friday started!
From The Divine Miss M. If you don’t have it in your playlist that can be remedied and should be immediately.
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“Citizen Bill Comes to Homer”
Text and photos by Michael Armstrong of the Homer Independent Press. Read the full story here. In a visit last Thursday to Homer, Independent candidate for U.S. House Bill Hill said one reason that motivates him to run is “I look at a nation where we daily see attacks on the rule of law, we…
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One of the best robot characters ever created in SF
I don’t much like reading books about time travel. Mostly it just makes me dizzy, I don’t deal well with paradoxes. There are a few exceptions, like Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp and Time and Again by Jack Finney. John Varley’s Millennium is another that has taken up permanent occupancy on my…
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