2022 Nebula for best Short Story - “Rabbit Test”

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Discuss here

[Allan]

Read it through earlier today & loved it. Wish a lot more people would read it & think about what a real, thoughtful resolution might be. I could go off on this subject, living here in Gilead, but I don't think diatribes are what we're going for here.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

I've read it [or listened in their podcast] and I like the mix of historical facts with the story. To think of it - early SF was largely about taking scientific facts and putting them into a story - this one does the trick with history.

At the same time the story is a bit distant for me because the situation where I live with abortions was quite different - I haven't read on it in depth for before 1917, but after the revolution and attempt to 'throw away' old regime norms there was a sexual revolution and legalization of abortions in the 1920s. In the 30s Stalin decided that the Soviet state needs more man fodder and banned them just as quickly as they were allowed. They were back to legal in the 50s onward and because pharma lagged behind, the surgical approach was the norm till the fall of the USSR. Currently in Ukraine while there is a minority akin to the US ban proponents, personal autonomy is implicitly felt by the majority as a norm

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

The link to the story: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/artic...

[Kalin]

Fantastic story. Though I haven't even read the other nominees, I'm not surprised this won after the year we've had in N. America; this was a very political vote by SFWA members. (Fuck you very much, Christofascists.)

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

SO depressing. And beautifully done

[Paulo]

Amazing story.
On her site, Samantha Mills has a file under the "Blog Categories" tag called "Life in Soundtrack: Harry Belafonte’s Pure Gold". It explains part of the origin of this story. At least it seems so, to me...

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Paulo wrote: "On her site, Samantha Mills has a file under the "Blog Categories" tag called "Life in Soundtrack: Harry Belafonte’s Pure Gold". "

I know that some readers like to read with a 'relevant' music background (not this particular story but in general). I've never adopted this path and now with 80% of my reads in audiobooks it is even less likely that I'll ever will

[Paulo]

Oleksandr wrote: "I know that some readers like to read with a 'relev..."

I don't look for music to read books either. I usually always have some background music but that is because I love music as I love reading, but I don't relate both.
In the interview, I mentioned Mills tells a story about Belafont's music occurring in her childhood, that in some ways, explain parts of her short story.

[Bonnie]

"Rabbit Test" won the Hugo Award on Saturday

https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-hi...

[Allan]

Glad to see it win, it was great.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Ditto