Mammoth
Sep 2020 · Open Road Media
4.1star
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A “rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology” from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of the Gaea Trilogy (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
“H. G. Wells meets Jurassic Park” in this novel about a multibillionaire, a time machine, and a baby woolly mammoth named Little Fuzzy (The Best Reviews).
The discovery of a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth in the Canadian wilderness gives wealthy visionary Howard Christian the opportunity of a lifetime: to clone it. But what really piques Christian’s curiosity is what he finds next to the mammoth: a metal box—and the mummified body of a man wearing a watch.
Working to discover the box’s purpose and clone the mammoth, a top physicist and an elephant veterinarian will be flung thousands of years into the past and back again—bringing a baby mammoth along for the ride—in this “imaginative and engaging” adventure that shows “Varley . . . in top form” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Praise for John Varley
“John Varley is the best writer in America.” —Tom Clancy
“There are few writers whose work I love more than John Varley’s, purely love.” —Cory Doctorow
“One of science fiction’s most important writers.” —The Washington Post
“Inventive.” —The New York Times
“One of the genre’s most accomplished storytellers.” —Publishers Weekly
“H. G. Wells meets Jurassic Park” in this novel about a multibillionaire, a time machine, and a baby woolly mammoth named Little Fuzzy (The Best Reviews).
The discovery of a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth in the Canadian wilderness gives wealthy visionary Howard Christian the opportunity of a lifetime: to clone it. But what really piques Christian’s curiosity is what he finds next to the mammoth: a metal box—and the mummified body of a man wearing a watch.
Working to discover the box’s purpose and clone the mammoth, a top physicist and an elephant veterinarian will be flung thousands of years into the past and back again—bringing a baby mammoth along for the ride—in this “imaginative and engaging” adventure that shows “Varley . . . in top form” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Praise for John Varley
“John Varley is the best writer in America.” —Tom Clancy
“There are few writers whose work I love more than John Varley’s, purely love.” —Cory Doctorow
“One of science fiction’s most important writers.” —The Washington Post
“Inventive.” —The New York Times
“One of the genre’s most accomplished storytellers.” —Publishers Weekly
Ratings and reviews
4.1
7 reviews
Kirk
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December 29, 2021
One of the best scifi books I've read in a long time, What a story, and what happened to Fuzzy afterwards?
Stuart Ferguson
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August 16, 2024
a good read, well thought out.
About the author
John Varley is the author of the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), the Thunder and Lightning Series (Red Thunder, Red Lightning, Rolling Thunder, and Dark Lightning), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Mammoth, and many more novels. He has won both Nebula and Hugo Awards for his short fiction, and his short story “Air Raid” was adapted into the film Millennium. Varley lives in Vancouver, Washington. For more information, visit varley.net.
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