Maurice Huysman presents the 2025 edition of his sci-fi fantasy of autocracy and female-led fiction, "Herrin". Read on, as Mr Huysman takes us to a distant future where a Federation space-craft on a diplomatic mission crash lands on an uncharted alien world. A world on which the crafts second male survivor will soon discover that he is neither alone nor the only inhabitant from earth on the planet. Unfortunately for him, the disgraced female and German scientist who made a similar crash landing many years before, has a vested interest in keeping his presence there to herself and far prefers to "rule in hell, than to serve in heaven". That scientist being a recognised genius and certifiable sociopath with no qualms when it comes to using that genius to modify the natives and her fellows from earth in a way that makes them more... ACCEPTABLE ...to her. Acceptability that will ensure a life of service for the hapless male-survivor the remainder of whose life she considers will best be spent as both pet and beast-of-burden. And in the most literal of ways! Female-led fantasy fiction of an outlandish but engrossing kind for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more... outré ...corners of their imaginations.