Melancholy Elephants
1982 short story by Spider Robinson
"Melancholy Elephants" is a 1982 science fiction short story by Canadian writer Spider Robinson. The story examines the interaction of copyright and longevity, and the possible effects of the extension of copyright to perpetuity. Its title is a reference to claims that elephants "never forget".
Plot summary
A woman desperately tries to convince a powerful senator to oppose perpetual copyright—because the fate of humanity is at stake.
Reception
"Melancholy Elephants" won the 1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.[1]
References
- ^ 1983 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved May 19, 2019
External links
- Melancholy Elephants title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Text of Melancholy Elephants at the Baen Free Library
- Melancholy Elephants, by Spider Robinson in his site.
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Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1981–2000)
- "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981)
- "The Pusher" by John Varley (1982)
- "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson (1983)
- "Speech Sounds" by Octavia E. Butler (1984)
- "The Crystal Spheres" by David Brin (1985)
- "Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl (1986)
- "Tangents" by Greg Bear (1987)
- "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans (1988)
- "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick (1989)
- "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas (1990)
- "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991)
- "A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey A. Landis (1992)
- "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993)
- "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis (1994)
- "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman (1995)
- "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh (1996)
- "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" by Connie Willis (1997)
- "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick (1998)
- "The Very Pulse of the Machine" by Michael Swanwick (1999)
- "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick (2000)
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