This was exactly the sort of speculative fiction where I'm just not sure my brain knows what to do with the story. It's about a future involving elephants whose superior memory is used to warn people of the future about nuclear waste, and other elephants of the past who were in the circus and then used to do dangerous jobs that made people ill, and the two storylines come together. And I get the mental connections, of the constant problem of how we develop warning signals for people of the future to understand about the hazards we're creating right now, and elephant remembering pain, and the way we've harmed beings in the past, and all that. The ideas are really interesting. I'm just not so sure about this as a story. But the writing was quite engaging, and I don't think it demanded a mental conclusion from me--which is good, I suppose.
Grade: B
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