Brooke Bolander unleashes a heart-wrenching alternate history about the disastrous clash between human nature and elephant nature.
Brooke Bolander writes weird things of indeterminate genre, most of them leaning rather heavily towards fantasy or general all-around weirdness. She attended the University of Leicester 2004-2007 studying History and Archaeology and is an alum of the 2011 Clarion Writers' Workshop at UCSD. Her stories have been featured in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Uncanny, and various other fine purveyors of the fantastic. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and the Theodore Sturgeon awards, much to her unending bafflement. The Only Harmless Great Thing is her first project with Tor.com.
"Devastatingly powerful. The Only Harmless Great Thing is a searing
meditation on myth, history, and the persistence of poison in all
its terrible forms. Bolander gives voice to the voiceless with such
controlled and perfect fury the pages seem to char and burn as you
read. It feels like an alternate Just So Story revealed to us by an
ecstatic punk oracle. I can't stop thinking about it. Nor will
you." --Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk "Bolander shares
literary DNA with Le Guin, and shows it in this tragic and
triumphant novella." --John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling
author of Old Man's War "Bolander's skilled prose always leaves me
agog, but days after finishing The Only Harmless Great Thing, I'm
still swimming around in its depths with a sense of wonder. It's
beautiful and sad and relatable and unremittingly, crucially
defiant." --Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author of the
Iron Druid Chronicles "A brutal story beautifully told.
[Bolander's] prose sings like music.... Read this." --Chuck Wendig,
author of Star Wars: Aftermath Characteristically poetic prose . .
. poignant. --The Guardian
"This handcrafted arrow of a novella becomes more absorbing with
each read." --Kirkus "The most beautiful and heart-breaking piece
of work Bolander's written to date." --Amal El-Mohtar, Lightspeed
Magazine "Elephants have infrasound and memory and majesty; we have
Brooke Bolander." --Lawrence M. Schoen, author of Barsk: The
Elephant's Graveyard "A fierce and visionary Jumbo Agonistes aimed
straight at the present day--mango-pulping, temple-smashing,
exploding out of history with the all the grand power and folly of
story." --Max Gladstone, author of The Craft Sequence "The Only
Harmless Great Thing is Southern Gothic come to the big Northern
City, where it settles in and begins to glow, dangerously, and to
sing, mightily, and to break out and trample reality into a new
shape. This book is transformative. I can hear echoing long after
I've set it down." --Fran Wilde, author of Updraft, Cloudbound, and
Horizon. "Fork-suckingly, plate-lickingly good." --Nat Cassidy,
author of Steal the Stars "As succinct as it is beautiful: a
snippet of times and of characters who struggle with unthinkable
injustice." --The Book Smugglers
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