The Ugly Chickens

by Howard Waldrop · 2000

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"The Ugly Chickens" — about the dodo — won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981. This is perhaps his best known work.

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Originally published in Universe 10, edited by Terry Carr, Doubleday 1980.

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short · 22 pages
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