{"product_id":"the-tusks-of-extinction-paperback","title":"The Tusks of Extinction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRay Nayler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA tense SF thriller from a new master of the genre.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain in the Sea, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Locus Award for \"Best First Novel,\" and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \"Ray Bradbury Prize.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Called \"one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction\" by \u003ci\u003eLocus, \u003c\/i\u003e Nayler's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction, Lightspeed, \u003c\/i\u003e Vice, and \u003ci\u003eNightmare, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in many \"Best Of\" anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld Readers' Poll and the Asimov's Readers' Award, and his novelette \"Sarcophagus\" was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Quebec and raised in California, Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani, and Vietnamese. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He holds an MA in global diplomacy from the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8.22 x 5.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hugo Award (2025)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987655098669,"sku":"9781250393661","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/yIXLcEbzen9781250393661.webp?v=1776183275","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-tusks-of-extinction-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}