The Only Harmless Great Thing Audiobook (Free)

Winner from the Nebula Honor for Ideal Novelette

Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Honours

The Only Harmless BEST PART is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Ladies and noble, sentient elephants.

In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of female factory employees in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was intentionally put to loss of life by electric power in Coney Isle.

These are the reality.

Now these two tragedies are intertwined inside a dark alternative history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying away to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching trip that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of signifying and justice.