The Tusks of Extinction [Paperback]

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella

When you bring back a long-extinct species, theres more to success than the DNA.

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how tobemammoths, 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.

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.

Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed novelThe Mountain in the Sea,which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and theLos Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize.Called one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction byLocus,Naylers stories have been published inAsimovs Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed,Vice, andNightmare,as well as in many Best Of anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld Readers Poll and the Asimovs Readers Award, and his novelette Sarcophagus was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Born 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 Universitys Elliott School of International Affairs. Heló+