The Tusks of Extinction

Hardcover, 98 pages

English language

Published by Tordotcom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-85552-7
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5 stars (3 reviews)

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?

A tense eco-thriller from a new master of the genre.

3 editions

Review of 'The Tusks of Extinction' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

The author's first book, The Mountain in the Sea, led me to read this, and I wasn't disappointed. This light novel, in a short span of under 100 pages, packs quite a punch. 

The main events deal with poachers, elephants, and their ancient cousins the mammoths. It speculates on de-extinction and narrates cruel events in a human greed impacted future. I was a bit confused at the start, which always happens to me when there are POV changes or time shifts, but by page 30 I was settled in the story and enjoyed a direct ride until I finished it.

The writing feels very well researched, it brings fictional events to a very near feel of reality –of what is and what could be.

Loved it 🧡

Moving SF Thriller

5 stars

(em português: sol2070.in/2024/05/The-Tusks-of-Extinction )

American Ray Nayler wrote one of the best science fiction books I've read in recent years: “The Mountain in the Sea”. That's why I've been waiting for the release of “The Tusks of Extinction” (2024).

It's a 105-page novella — something between a short story and a novel — about extinction, biotechnology and consciousness transplantation.

In the future, mammoths are genetically recreated in a reserve in Siberia, but as the species depends on a culture passed down for generations, they don't survive as there is no one to teach them. The solution is to transplant the consciousness of a murdered elephant human guardian, in the hope that the pachydermic culture will be useful to the resurrected species. The complicating factor is that to finance the research, mammoth hunts are offered to billionaires willing to pay millions for the privilege of killing one. And illegal hunters are …

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