The Only Harmless Great Thing

Posted on 07 June 2018 by Brooke Bolander

In 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.These are the facts.Now 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. Read The Only Harmless Great Thing – kino-fada.fr congratulations on your nebula award best novelette 2018 i do not love the word, but i love the win in just under a hundred pages, brooke bolander figured out a way to rewrite american history so its even worse, develop two and change distinct storylines, flesh out the thoughts, traditions, mythologies, language, and other components of a cultural heritage belonging to a familiar nonhuman species, and drag the reader through puddles of sorrow and sick feelings before shaking em off into congratulations on your nebula award best novelette 2018 i do not love the word, but i love the win in just under a hundred pages, brooke bolander figured out a way to rewrite american history so it s even worse, develop two and change distinct storylines, flesh out the thoughts, traditions, mythologies, language, and other components of a cultural heritage belonging to a familiar nonhuman species, and drag the reader through puddles of sorrow and sick feelings before shaking em off into hope, triumph, and a raised fist of fuck all y all plus, she manages all of that in this strikingly fanciful singsongy prose that is very appealing and adds evendimension to the story with its su...No matter what you did, forty or fifty or a hundred years passed and everything became a narrative to be toyed with, masters of media alchemy splitting the truth s nucleus into a ricocheting cascade reaction of diverging alternate realitiesThis novella is a story about stealing back your narrative from those who wish to change it, to sanitize history and make their own actions sound good It is a discussion of the animal capacity to feel and the morality of making animals props in our...Okay, after some very intensive, most scientific research, I have come to the following conclusion this book was not written by Brooke Bolander but by her evil twin, Crooke Colander Yes is has I mean, how else would one explain that I almost quite nearly DNFed this story before the 20% mark Now if that is isnt the scientifically irrefutable proof that it is impossibly impossible for Brooke Bolander of the Glorious Talons and Luscious Trai...Author Brooke Bolander takes two unrelated historical events and ties them together in an effort to make a statement about the inherent darkness in humanity Historically speaking, an elephant named Topsy was actually put to death by electrocution The radium dial painters, whom you can read about in The Radium Girls The Dark Story of America s Shining Women, actually existed.In this science fiction alternative history story, elephants are a sentient race,...So.Caveats first I m another Tor.com author I know Brooke Bolander as a friend The draft I read One of the earlier versions of the finished product, I m sure But stranger, if you re here, combing through the wilds of Goodreads to see if this book is worth pre ordering or buying, the answer s simple Yessssss.The Only Harmless Great Thing is a raw nerve, played by an orchestra A song of ache and ghosts, radium girls whispering from across the ether, a thousand bad things tied together with So.Caveats first I m another Tor.com author I know Brooke Bolander as a friend The draft I read One of the earlier versions of the finished product, I m sure But stranger, if you re here, combing through the wilds of Goodreads to see if this book is worth pre ordering or buying, the answer s simple Yessssss.The Only Harmless Great Thing is a raw nerve, played by an orchestra A song of ac... Try not to judge them their mothers were short lived, forgetful things, clans led by bulls with short memories and shorter tempers. Them above being the human race good luck not feeling at least a little judgy by the end of this excellent novella.Combine the real world inspiration of Topsy the elephant, with another real life story of the Radium Girls, with another almost true story of using glowing ...I received this for free as part of Tor.coms free ebook of the month club I wasnt terribly excited about it when I saw it But free is free and it was quick so I took a chance, and Im so glad I did First content warnings, because this isnt an easy book to stomach view spoiler Animal abuse and torture, graphic depictions of radiat...Brooke Bolander s work has been defined to date by a combination of relentlessly precise language and colossal emotion depth and focus Her short fiction is seared through with images that linger after you ve finished reading and turns of phrase that sit on the backs of your eyes like the after image of the Sun There is nothing that she s written that is less than brilliant.This is the best thing she s written to date.Combining two separate historical atrocities, Bolander explores both the Brooke Bolander s work has been defined to date by a combination of relentlessly precise language and colossal emotion depth and focus Her short fiction is seared through with images that linger after you ve finished reading and turns of phrase that sit on the backs of your eyes like the after image of the Sun There is nothing that she s written that is less than brilliant.This is the best thing she s written to date.Combining two separate hi...Combining the sad and sickening histories of the US radium dial painters and an abused and murdered elephant, Topsy, Brooke Bolander has crafted a tightly written, brutal story of corporate greed and inhumane treatment, with some beautiful, elephant myth making.Oh, humanity, SHAME ON YOU.This is a shamefest of shameful shenanigans, from Radium Girls to massive mistreatment of elephants But unlike us and our own grasp of history, THEY WILL REMEMBER I ve read a few of Bolander s stories and they all struck me as hardcore In the sense that they hit hard and make you feel it in your gut and gonads, barely letting up long enough to go for another sucker punch Let s face it We don t look at the crap we do to ourselves very well Narrative Oh, humanity, SHAME ON YOU.This is a shamefest of shameful shenanigans, from Radium Girls to massive mistreatment of elephants But unlike us and our own grasp of history, THEY WILL REMEMBER I ve read a few of Bolander s stories and they all struck me as hardcore In the sense that they hit hard and make you feel it in your gut and gonads, barely letting up long enough to go for another sucker punch Let s face it We don t look at the crap we do to ourselves very well Narrative restructuring for our lives has made it almost impossible to see the truth for what it is So let s writestories that SHAME us for the immortal monsters that we re becoming, shall we Break through that immense narrative wall Ah but and here s the really shameful bit people don t want to hear how bad they re being Pointing fingers is what they do best, but those fingers never land on ourselves I think this novella works best for those of us ...

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07 June 2018

Brooke Bolander