Short Fiction Review: September–October 2025
My favorite stories from September and October featured aliens, impossibilities, migration, and death, in varying combinations.
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Book Review: Outlaw Planet, by M.R. Carey
For anyone who enjoys Westerns with a strong science-fiction background, or vice versa, with compelling characters and an intriguing plot, and a lot to say about memory and how someone is remembered, this will be great.
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Book review: Project Hanuman, by Stewart Hotston
It’s a book full of anxiety, dread, and suspense, but also a thoughtful exploration of war, negotiation, and potential ways of being.
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Comics Review: The Witch’s Egg, by Donya Todd
The keen sense of visual design contrasts the childlike aspects of the character art. That’s not due to a lack of skill; this is clearly deliberate. There really is a striking degree of intentionality, here. The level of detail and the superabundance of decoration in the art and the page layouts makes that very clear.
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Psychotronic Perspectives: THE GHOSTS OF HANLEY HOUSE (1968) Directed by Louise Sherrill
“And it is in the execution of the familiar conception that I think writer/director Louise Sherrill achieves something wonderful and eerie on a microscopic budget.”
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Book Review: BIRTH OF A DYNASTY by Chinaza Bado
The novel is hugely entertaining and compulsively readable, while achieving a great deal of moral depth and nuances in its characters and plot, as well as some fascinating world-building.