In a world where we learned to talk to elephants in the 1800s, we get two stories about how elephants were associated with radioactivity, how they (and people) were abused, and what came of it all.
Brooke Bolander
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Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace.
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body-horrordeathgoreviolence
The girl he killed was much more than merely human, and there will be consequences.
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deathmisogynysexual-violenceviolence
An ice-age girl who learns to play the flute has an unusual connection with a future girl starving in a flooded city.
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
In which a dim-witted prince fools a clever velociraptor into following him back to his court and what happened thereafter.
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deathviolence
The last living human being lives with her aunts, who are all incarnations of the last survivors of various extinct species.
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death