REVIEW: “The Weather Girl” by Summer Jewel Keown

Review of Summer Jewel Keown, “The Weather Girl,” Luna Station Quarterly 64 (December 2025): 261-273 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

It’s a bit weird reading a romance when you know from pretty much the first line that it doesn’t have a happy ending, but nevertheless I enjoyed the unfolding of this one, waiting to see just how the unhappy ending would come about. Unfortunately, in the end, it was for boring, mundane, ordinary reasons, which kind of defeated any more fantastic/speculative elements that the story had, for me.

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REVIEW: “Trespassers” by Mina Ramirez

Review of Mina Ramirez, “Trespassers,” Luna Station Quarterly 64 (December 2025): 27-36 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

Considering the trajectory of current circumstances, I can get the desire to write a story of signing away all of one’s rights to a faceless corporation in exchange for survival; there’s a certain sort of catharsis in doing so.

But given the trajectory of current circumstances, this isn’t necessarily the sort of story that I want to read. Maybe other people do — if so, I hope they’ll enjoy it. (It does have a satisfactory ending, which helps.)

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REVIEW: “What Should We Do With the Body?” by Amelia Weissman

Review of Amelia Weissman, “What Should We Do With the Body?” Luna Station Quarterly 64 (December 2025): 95-99 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

Never thought I’d read a story about nuclear fairy beetles — something that sounds a bit like “take a word from this hat, a word from that hat, and another word from that hat, and then write a story about the combination” — but whatever Weissman’s inspiration was, the result is something different and a bit unusual, and fun to read.

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