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THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION

NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST Best Book of the Year
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NEBULA, HUGO, and LOCUS awards

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.

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"Both breathtaking and heartbreaking." -- Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

"A compact novella that reads like a superb science fiction inversion of Ernest Hemingway’s 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'" -- Amal El-Mohtar, ​The New York Times

"Impassioned and impressive . . . an uncompromising climate fiction that strikes like a spear to the gut." -- Publishers Weekly

“A 'read in one sitting, think about for days' book." -- ​Indie Next List

"Open-minded and open-hearted throughout, this is speculative fiction at its very best. -- The Big Issue

“Delv[es] into the vital issues on which the human future may depend. The Tusks of Extinction is a masterful work.” -- SciFi Mind

“The Tusks of Extinction is a moving tribute to the beauty of beasts too often taken for granted  . . . and the hidden layers of meaning found in human interactions with the wild.”-- Shelf Awareness


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