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Melancholy Elephants

by Spider Robinson · 1984

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Spider Robinson's stories are about people-about pain, fear, love and memory. They happen to take place in the future.

Robinson writes speculative entertainment. He creates a fictional universe in which he grapples with the human condition by questioning the course we are taking. And he does it with humour and wit and compassion.

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This collection of twelve stories, introduced by the author, includes the Hugo award winning “Melancholy Elephants.”

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
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sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 244 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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