"Rabbit Test"
| Title | "Rabbit Test" |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | Mills, Samantha |
| Secondary Title | Uncanny Magazine |
| Volume / Edition | no. 49 |
| Date Published | November-December 2022 |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-06-331574-7 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | The story moves both forward and backward in time depicting the effect of Dodds v. Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had made abortion legal. The forward material depicts the impact of decision of the women of one family over time. The backward material presents material on the historical availability of abortion. The story won the 2022 Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards for the best short story. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023. Ed. R[ebecca] F. Kuang (New York: Mariner Books, 2023), 80-98, with an author’s comment on the text on 278. |
| URL | https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/ |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The female author is an archivist and the historical material is not fiction. |
| Full Text | 2022 Mills, Samantha. “Rabbit Test.” Uncanny Magazine, no. 49 (November-December 2022). https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/ Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023. Ed. R[ebecca] F. Kuang (New York: Mariner Books, 2023), 80-98, with an author’s comment on the text on 278. PSt The story moves both forward and backward in time depicting the effect of Dodds v. Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had made abortion legal. The forward material depicts the impact of decision of the women of one family over time. The backward material presents material on the historical availability of abortion. The story won the 2022 Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards for the best short story. The female author is an archivist and the historical material is not fiction. |
