I first encountered Samantha Mills when her story, Rabbit Test, was nominated for a Hugo Award. I read it along side the other nominees and I loved that story so much - it was incredibly well written and was number one on my ballot. (Regardless of what we later learned about how the 2023 Hugo nominations were hijacked, that story was amazing and it will always be a Hugo winner in my mind.)
After reading that story, I was excited when I found out that Ms. Mills had a first novel, The Wings Upon Her Back coming out, and I was even more excited when NetGalley and the publisher gave me an eARC in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed it and said that I was excited to read more of Ms. Mills’s work in the future. So I was thrilled when the publisher gave me an ARC of Rabbit Test and Other Stories, what I hope is the first of many short story collections by this author, in exchange for an honest review.
I loved this book! I often said that I much prefer single offer short story collections to anthologies because, among other things, the quality of the work is usually more consistent and there’s less tonal whiplash. But even in the best collections, there are often stories that are weaker or don’t work as well for an individual reader. In this collection, however, every story slapped. There was not a single dud in the bunch that I kept getting wowed over and over again. My only complaint about this book was that it was too short. When I got to the end, I just wished that there was more. This was wonderful from beginning to end.
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