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The Tusks of Extinction

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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. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behaviour, was brutally... Read More
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The Tusks of Extinction

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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.

Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behaviour, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitised 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250393661

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Mountain in the Sea, which won the Locus Award for "Best First Novel," and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Los Angeles Times' Ray Bradbury Prize. Called "one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction" by Locus, Nayler's stories have been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Vice, and Nightmare, as well as in many "Best Of" anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld Readers' Poll and the Asimov's Readers' Award, and his novelette "Sarcophagus" was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

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