Only Harmless Great Thing - Brooke Bolander

\n \nWinner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette \n \nFinalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards\n \nThe Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.\n \nIn the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island. \n \nThese are the facts.\n \nNow these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.\n