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The tusks of extinction / Ray Nayler.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behaviour, was murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take hold? Or will her own ghosts doom them to a new extinction? Ray Nayler was born in Quebec.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250855527 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 101 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2023
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| Subject: | Genetic engineering > Fiction. Mammoths > Fiction. Poaching > Fiction. Moscow (Russia) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. Novels. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold? And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?" -- Publisher website. - Baker & Taylor
When her digitized consciousness is downloaded into the mind of a mammoth, which have been resurrected, Dr. Damira Khismatullina, who was brutally murdered trying to defend the worldâs last elephants, must teach them how to be mammoths to avoid dooming them to a new extinction. - McMillan Palgrave
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella
When you bring back a long-extinct species, thereâs more to success than the DNA.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again.
Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth.
As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take hold? Or will her own ghosts, and Moscow's real reason for bringing the mammoth back, doom them to a new extinction?
A tense SF thriller from a new master of the genre.
