The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler
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The Tusks of Extinction

Author: Ray Nayler

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/16/2024

Synopsis

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.

About Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Mountain in the Sea. Called "One of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction" by Locus, Nayler's stories have seen print in Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and 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. Born in Quebec and raised in California, Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani Turkish, and Vietnamese. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He holds an MA in Global Diplomacy from the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, the University of London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on December 13, 2024

4.0 Stars Video Review: [URL not allowed] I loved the premise of this novella. As someone who loves prehistoric creatures, this appealed to my interests. The story is slow paced and quiet. It's certainly not a biopunk thriller like Jurassic Park but instead an intellectual exploration. Upon......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on November 19, 2024

Sad+weird and a little strange how the story is set up, but it’s such a quick, unique, and hard hitting read!!......more

Goodreads review by Trish on July 15, 2024

This is my second book by this author and it once again blew my mind. Here, we live in a slightly futuristic world where bringing an extinct species back is no longer impossible. * The mammoth is chosen - why is a secret that unravels throughout the book. However, bringing a species back is not the on......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on October 04, 2023

I knew as soon as I saw the description that I needed this book. I've read about de-extinction and the usefulness that recreated mammoths might have for our environment. Now, you can tell I loved it from the five star rating, but this was hardly what I expected. It's a lot more bittersweet than expe......more

Goodreads review by Justine on February 25, 2024

My first book by Nayler, but not my last. An excellent novella that made me want to bump up my reading of his previous work, The Mountain in the Sea. I loved the treatment here of how difficult it is to truly understand another mind, no matter your ability to reason and empathize. “I know what it is......more

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