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Elegy for a Young Elk

Hannu Rajaniemi

First published May 2010
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

"A man in a post-apocalyptic world is tasked by a science-fictional angel from the heavens to enter a fire-walled city to retrieve something of theirs that has fallen from their realm and crashed there." — Dan Smyth

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2011 Hugo Award Best Short Story Nominee/Finalist
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Nominee/Finalist
2011 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards Short Form Award Winner

Publications (21)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 2010 Subterranean Online, Spring 2010 Subterranean Press MAGAZINE 4
March 2011 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five Night Shade Books Anthology 7
March 2011 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five Night Shade Books Anthology
July 2011 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 455
July 2011 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 455
July 2011 The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 Infinivox Anthology |8
July 2011 StarShipSofa, No 199 StarShipSofa MAGAZINE
July 2011 The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 Infinivox Anthology |8
August 2011 The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 Infinivox Anthology |8
September 2011 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24 Robinson Anthology 497
January 2012 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 455
June 2012 Million Writers Award: The Best Online Science Fiction and Fantasy Spotlight Publishing Anthology
December 2013 It Came From the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction Cheeky Frawg Books Anthology |5
May 2015 Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction Tachyon Publications Collection 68
May 2016 Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction Gollancz Collection 68
May 2016 Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction Gollancz Collection
March 2017 Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction Gollancz Collection 68
May 2017 Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction Gollancz Collection
January 2018 StarShipSofa, No 519 District of Wonders MAGAZINE |1
October 2023 Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction Solaris Anthology
October 2023 Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction Solaris Anthology