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You have got your plot lines worked out and your characters fully drawn.  This new plot horror will be good for leading a good guy into serious mistakes (I'm thinking maybe Glaselle) and opening some interesting, foreshadowing questions (How do we tell history about this?  Maybe we shouldn't?)

But the culmination of the thread needs to wait until Hell comes for things, handbasket in hand.  I can't leave too much time to brood on this one, because folly-made disaster must follow fast and faster.

Not close to me, but doable with motel rest nights.    No way to swing through Mesa on such a short trip.

Did a couple of reviews.  I'll be tied up most of the day, but I thought of a plot element for later in the story.  I should begin laying the ground for it in B3 or B4, and the event probably should come in B7.  I need to find an hour or so to start writing up more serious notes.  Let's see how the day goes.

Okay, a new chapter is up in B2 (Ch 11, Healing by Night).

The next one WILL take a while.

I'm signing off for today.  I might be able to take a quick look in later.

I've made some minor edits to B2, Ch9: Maurand.  I have material for another chapter, which wants some minor editing.  Then I have to start putting my notes together.

If you're up close and personal with a much larger enemy, you're probably visible all over the spectrum.  RCS isn't going to matter much.  Nor can we assume these ships have such a shape.

When I was but a wee slip of a programmer, I read of two commands in an early, even primeval, Unix manual.  true--Does nothing, successfully.  false--does nothing, unsuccessfully.  Not long after, I met the original ADVENTure game, whose messages included "Nothing happens" and "Twice as much nothing happens."

Well, alright.  I don't think anyone would have described me as a wee slip of anything.  But the point is that I have about 2k words in which a lot of precious little happens.

I have some edits on the previous chapter, then I'll see about getting that busy nothing up.

In response to the review reply: The clew-laying is pretty good, especially the camouflage of one clew by another.  But if you keep the action and description separated and sequenced so that you don't make the reader pick one apart from another, the reader is less likely to stop and notice things.  And when you do stop, force the reader's attention on a dilemma and away from the clew.

Unfortunately, The Sleeping Sphinx is not available on Kindle.  But =The Blind Barber= is.  So is =The Bride of Newgate= and =The Man Who Could Not Shudder=.

I think I'll add another comment (or more) to the review.

Your use of 'momentum' is essentially correct.  I'm not sure the controls would work like that.  Remember that to rotate the ship will require using the maneuvering thrusters to start the rotation, and again to stop it.  There are two ways out of this: rotate the ship using gyrowheels or start the rotation with maneuvering thrusters and end it by starting up the big engines asymmetrically, one a little before the other, to produce the torque you need.  If the computer is managing everything, it might also fire the maneuvering thrusters on one side only, the side that provides impulse (delta in momentum) in the direction you want,

In the orginal =Star Wars=, when the =Falcon= escapes the Death Star it flips end for end.  When the movie was re-released as =A New Hope= they  changed it to rotation in-plane.  But they got it right the first time: there is less angular momentum (rotational inertia) flipping the disk end-for-end.

I have enough material that I can probably clean a bit up and get a chapter out.  I'm not sure there will be enough happening in it, though.  (And I may make some edits to a chapter already out there.

Indeed.

I went to Home Depot this morning to get some nylon nuts and screws, which I saw there, I swan, not two years ago.  Nuts, they had a few, but nylon screws they had none.  Nor had Lowes any.  Both can supply them on order, but they seem to begrudge it.

So I went poking around with froogle, and came up empty there too.  Finally, I realized where I should have started.  I went and checked the Mouser web catalog.  It's still order for delivery, but if anything anyone lacks, they have it all ready in stacks.  (Note, by the way, Marty Green's stage business, matching word, gesture, and note perfectly.)