Review - The Aliens' Incubator by Troy Montgomery

Dylan is just about to finish his shift at the pizza parlor when a call comes in for a delivery. He reluctantly agrees to take the delivery on his way home, but the address turns out to be in the middle of the woods. He is just returning to his car when vines seem to attack and hold him down while doing things to his body that are both pleasurable and frightening. Dylan returns home in a daze, but wakes up the next morning to find he is very, very pregnant.

This latest foray into “tentacle porn” was a bit of a surprise. The biggest surprise was perhaps that the main character was trans. Even after re-reading the blurb, it’s only very subtly implied. There’s nothing wrong with a trans character. It was just the surprise of reading the story and the sudden shock of “a tentacle went where? This guy has one of those?” I suspect that was the intent of the obscurely worded blurb.

Many of the scenes and much of the language of this short novella seem designed to shock. Again, nothing is wrong with that, but something about it felt “off” to me. In particular, Dylan’s self-image didn’t seem to ring true. You can get away with a lot in erotic fantasy, which at the end of it all is what this story is, but when the main character doesn’t quite feel right, it sort of shatters the illusion.

This is the start of a serialized set of shorts that presumably follows Dylan’s journey. Those have never quite satisfied me as a reader and been very difficult to deal with as a reviewer. I’m not sure I will continue to read the next books, when they are published.

“The Aliens' Incubator” is available from Smashwords and Amazon (commissionable link).