#SciFiMonth2025 Tusks of Extinction
by 
Ray Nayler
Finish date: 16.11.2025
Genre: novella
Rating: C
#SciFiMonth2025
Good News: When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. I had to look up on Google what a mammoth looked like!
But someone must teach them how to be mammoths…or they are doomed to die out again.
How do you teach a mammoth?
Good News: In the first chapters reaching out to the mind of a mammoth expert to help teach the animals to survive after their extinction…had its moments. How did the scientists do this? No spoilers.
Personal: This NOT a book I’d grab off the shelf…but is is short, novella
…so that’s a good thing! I #NeededMoreCoffee than usual …to finish the book!
It wasn’t too bad …the author clearly has done his research.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2025
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Needed more coffee ☕️ to finish 🤣 well done on persevering.
I had to keep reading was it just for the poor mammoth!
sorry it was not more than a C for you.
I loved the mix of bio-semiotics and eco science-fiction.
It was short, novella so that was a good thing!