Ivory
Pyr · Paperback · August 1, 2007
In the year 6303, when earth is bare of anything larger than an insect or a mouse and most people have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas receives a most unusual visitor.
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- Who it’s for
- A far-future search for lost tusks moves through time, history, and legend.
- Themes
- History and legend, Ancient Africa, Far-future Earth
- Genres
- Space Opera, Time Travel Fiction, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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In the year 6303, when earth is bare of anything larger than an insect or a mouse and most people have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas receives a most unusual visitor. His name is Bukoba Mandaka, and he is the last of the Maasai. Mandaka wants Rojas, senior researcher for Braxton's Records of Big Game, to find the tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant, tusks that weigh over 200 lb. each. Why? Mandaka will not say, but he will pay enormous sums for them.
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And Rojas cannot resist the challenge of tracing something lost for 3000 years. Back and forth through time, in card games, wars, and rivalries, Rojas searches. But as he begins to glimpse the elusive, lost power of ancient Africa, he is seduced, and before long the quest has become his own. With Ivory, Mike Resnick has created a powerful novel spanning worlds and centuries, an exploration of the nature of history and legend, and a riveting parable for our times.
History in Motion
A far-future search for lost tusks moves through time, history, and legend.
Come here for
- A strange commission that becomes a challenge spanning three millennia.
- The elusive pull of ancient Africa, glimpsed across worlds and centuries.
Expect
- A search that moves back and forth through time.
- Card games, wars, and rivalries along the way.
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 72% |
|---|---|
| Time Travel Fiction | 29% |
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Time Travel Fiction
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- Mike Resnick
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- August 1, 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- History and legend · Ancient Africa · Far-future Earth
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure