The Tusks of Extinction
“Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki expressively give voice to a range of characters in this speculative novella…De Cuir, with a luminous voice, gives a fierce and pensive portrait of Damira and a moving interpretation of a local young poacher. In contrast, Rudnicki’s resonant gravelly narration exposes the self-involvement of scientists and the greed of a billionaire…The ending astonishes.”
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Winner of the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novella
An Amazon Editors' Pick in Best Science Fiction & Fantasy
Finalist for the Nebula Award
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
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.
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