Book Review: Post ROE Alternatives: Fighting Back

Fantasy author Rosemary Edghill was kind enough to write a review of B Cubed Press’ new anthology: Post ROE Alternatives: Fighting Back. Amazon declined to post it, and she has given me permission to post it here.

What writers consider networking, Amazon apparently regards as nepotism.

POST ROE ALTERNATIVES Fighting Back

Edited by Debora Godfrey, Phyllis Irene Radford, Lou J Berger, Tom Easton, K.G. Anderson, Elé Killian, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Marleen S. Barr, Manny Frishberg, and Bob Brown.

B Cubed Press

This small press is noted for its progressive and often political anthologies, such as Alternative Truths and Alternative Apocalypse, and the current entry is equally politically oriented. These 50 stories, poems, and essays in Post Rose Alternatives ask the question: what would life be like in a world shaped by the revocation of Roe v Wade?

As is inevitable in an anthology with such a restricted theme, there is a certain amount of overlap in the way authors choose to address the topic, (Lesbians! So many Lesbians!), but each story stands on its own merits, and the answers the authors come up with run the gamut of unflinchingly dark to savagely satiric.

Standout works include Not Quite a Child Ballad Traditional and Later Scenarios by E.A. Scarborough, Inmate 08-G7N Will See You Now by J.P. Burnham, and Bat Scat Crazy by S.M. Macdonald

This is a dense dark-chocolate murdercake to remind people who take away the rights of others that they are eventually at the mercy of those with no rights to lose.

A “dense dark-chocolate murdercake”. Now that’s a lovely description. Thank you, Rosemary Edghill, for your review.