Wombling Along
Helloooo!
A week off is a wonderful thing. There had been a spa break, a movie, seeing old friends and I’m typing this up at World Fantasy Convention is a very windy Brighton. Fun has been had, books have been accumulated and I’ve still two days to go! More on that in the week to come. But that should boost the energy levels to get me to the end of the year.
Welcome to Wombling Along where I like to share the reviews and other online things that caught my eye. It’s been a week largely offline but I think we can still find some temptations
Reviews
SFF world really enjoyed Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds
https://www.sffworld.com/2025/10/halcyon-years-by-alastair-reynolds/
They also get impressed by Who Will You Save by Gareth L Powell
https://www.sffworld.com/2025/11/who-will-you-save-by-gareth-l-powell/
Reactor really enjoyed Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
https://reactormag.com/book-review-automatic-noodle-by-annalee-newitz/
Needs of as Feather is intrigued by The Witch of Prague by JM Sidorova
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-witch-of-prague-by-jm.html?m=1
Locus adds to the many people saying you need to read When There Are Wolves again by EJ Swift
https://locusmag.com/review/when-there-are-wolves-again-by-e-j-swift-review-by-niall-harrison/
Locus also has this very impressed review of The Isle of The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
https://locusmag.com/review/the-isle-in-the-silver-sea-by-tasha-suri-review-by-liz-bourke/
Imyril takes There’s Aways Room For One More to the impressive Yhe Butcher of The Forest by Premee Mohamed
https://onemore.org/2025/10/28/the-butcher-of-the-forest/
The Wrong Questions delves deep into House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky and this very interesting series
https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/house-of-open-wounds-days-of-shattered.html?m=1
Ancillary Review of Books starts a new translated fiction segment
Witty And sarcastic Bookclub looked at One Night At Kedar by Ashton Macaulay
For your final post Halloween horror splurge (fear not I’ll always cover horror though) we have
Gingernuts of horror looking at the master of horror Garth Marenghi and their new novel This Bursted Earth
https://gnofhorror.com/a-review-of-garth-marenghis-this-bursted-earth/
Also I’m sure a very true title in Its Not A Cult by Joey Batley
https://gnofhorror.com/its-not-a-cult-joey-bateys-bold-new-novel-review/
NS Ford explains why Spores of Doom - Dank Tales of The Fungal Weird edited by Aaron Worth missed the mark
https://nsfordwriter.com/spores-of-doom-dank-tales-of-the-fungal-weird-edited-by-aaron-worth/
The Fantasy Hive’s Beth continues her voyage into horror with What Feasts At Night by T Kingfisher
https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/what-feasts-at-night-by-t-kingfisher-book-review/
Jamreads has an approving look at The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Canas
https://jamreads.com/reviews/the-possession-of-alba-diaz-by-isabel-caas
Locus looked approvingly at Vampires At Sea by Lindsay Merbaum
https://locusmag.com/review/vampires-at-sea-by-lindsay-merbaum-review-by-abigail-nussbaum/
in other news
Reactor kindly shared a list of horror titles for October
https://reactormag.com/horror-highlights-for-october-2025/
They also have a great selection of translated horror stories to look out for
https://reactormag.com/spooky-reads-from-yonder-horror-in-translation/
You need more horror? Fear not Rudsn Books has a few more
https://ruadanbooks.com/what-to-read-ghosts-and-haunted-houses/
Stew Hotston reminds us there are way more systems of government fanatsy could be exploring
https://stewarthotston.com/2025/10/30/a-guide-for-fantasy-kingdoms/
Reactor also had this problem excellent look at fanatsy cities to visit
https://reactormag.com/eight-strange-cities-where-youll-need-more-than-a-map-to-survive/p
Reader of Else kindly has books to read if you’ve loved Notes From A Regicide by Isaac Fellman (which I need to read)
They also continue the deep dive into Lord of The Rings
Gingernuts of Horror defends the found footage genre
https://gnofhorror.com/found-footage-fear-a-cinephiles-defense-of-the-genres-best-scares/
Galactic Journey takes us to the music of 1970
https://galacticjourney.org/pop-goes-the-science-fiction/
Round Ups!
A Literary Escape gives an October update
https://aliteraryescape.com/2025/10/31/october-2025-book-blog-wrap-up/
Gavreads has their weekly update
https://gavreads.co.uk/2025/10/26/sunday-summary-26-oct-25/
finding Time To Write has a reading summary of the month
https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/october-reading-summary-2/
I share a double bill of The Full Lid
https://mailchi.mp/a110f7105ed9/the-full-lid-24th-october-2025
https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=a0e2b590b7db9ab7d2927942c&id=5dbd42d003
Renay has an excellent Intergalactic Mixtape of tempatation
https://buttondown.com/intergalacticmixtape/archive/intergalactic-mixtape-26/
And finally Grady Hendrix offers some helpful advice
https://reactormag.com/how-to-survive-a-slasher-movie/
Have a great weekend, keep reading and I’ll see you soon
