The Tusks of Extinction
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Tor/Forge · Ebook · September 9, 2025
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
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- Who it’s for
- Layered sci-fi with serious tone, built for immersion and conversation.
- Genres
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi, Tech Thrillers, Animal Fiction
- Published
- Tor/Forge, September 9, 2025
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Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella 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 behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth.
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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.
Layered Tension
Layered sci-fi with serious tone, built for immersion and conversation.
Come here for
- Genetic-engineering intrigue
- Crime-threaded tension
Expect
- Prestige-leaning prose
- A sustained, high-stakes read
Where it sits
| Animal Fiction | 57% |
|---|---|
| Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi | 51% |
| Tech Thrillers | 46% |
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Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Authors
- Ray Nayler
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Published
- September 9, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure