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reviewed Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills

Rabbit Test

3 stars

This was the 2023 Locus Awards short story winner and can be read here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/

An extremely timely story about the fight for abortion rights both in the past and speculatively into the far future, about scientific advances being weaponized against women, and about how progress doesn't always move forwards.

Politics-wise, I read this story going heck yeah, all of this, yes yes yes. But story-wise, for me personally, there's some level that reality has already escaped the speculative fiction level of the story, and backsliding regressive laws and dystopian app tracking are already a reality. Maybe I'm steeped too much in all of this so much that I read this and I am like "yes, but I know all this and this is already here" and I needed something more than just a call to fight.