Mammoth — John Varley

A "rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology" from the Nebula and Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of the Gaea Trilogy (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

 


"H. G. Wells meets Jurassic Park" in this novel about a multibillionaire, a time machine, and a baby woolly mammoth named Little Fuzzy (The Best Reviews).


 


The discovery of a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth in the Canadian wilderness gives wealthy visionary Howard Christian the opportunity of a lifetime: to clone it. But what really piques Christian's curiosity is what he finds next to the mammoth: a metal box -- and the mummified body of a man wearing a watch.


 


Working to discover the box's purpose and clone the mammoth, a top physicist and an elephant veterinarian will be flung thousands of years into the past and back again -- bringing a baby mammoth along for the ride -- in this "imaginative and engaging" adventure that shows "Varley . . . in top form" (San Francisco Chronicle).


 

Praise for John Varley

 


"John Varley is the best writer in America." -- Tom Clancy


 


"There are few writers whose work I love more than John Varley's, purely love." -- Cory Doctorow


 


"One of science fiction's most important writers." -- The Washington Post

 


"Inventive." -- The New York Times

 


"One of the genre's most accomplished storytellers." -- Publishers Weekly