The Only Harmless Great Thing
Novelette 16,825 words Recommended by 12 award/anthology sources
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.
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor Novella, where the author gets the click.