Elephants are used as mascots for nuclear power companies, and paintings of elephants decorated the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan. One curious result of this co-existence is that – for reasons that become clear as the story unfolds – American culture has come to associate elephants with radiation. In this story, Brooke Bolander imagines an alternate history where sapient elephants are able to communicate with people through sign language, and carry out manual labour within human society. The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander Now, let us raise the wordcount and enter Best Novelette, honouring stories of between 7,500 and 17,500 words in length… The previous post covered the Best Short Story category. Welcome to the second of our series examining the prose stories that are competing at this year’s Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy.
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