a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for best novellasarah gailey''s wildfire debut is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls preposterously fun.In the early 20th century The United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.other true things about hippos: they are savage they are fast and their jaws can SNAP a man in two.This was a terrible plan..