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Title:
Mammoth
Genre:
Nature
Science Fiction
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Binding:
Audiobook
Edition:
1st
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
402
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:54:29
Synopsis:
A “rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology” from the Nebula and Hugo Award–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
REVIEW
PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF JOHN VARLEY
“Varley is a kind of latter-day, humanist Heinlein, someone who writes science fiction with imagination and verve.” —Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
“The short story is to science fiction what the seven-inch single was to rock: the most perfect yet the most mercilessly demanding form. My life-experience of John Varley’s stories has been that the great majority of them are quite literally unforgettable.” —William Gibson
“John Varley is the best writer in America.” —Tom Clancy
“[Varley is] one of science fiction’s most important writers.” —The Washington Post
“Superior science fiction.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Varley has earned the mantle of Heinlein.” —Locus
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Varley is the author of the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), the Thunder and Lightning Series (Red Thunder, Red Lightning, Rolling Thunder, and Dark Lightning), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Mammoth, and many more novels. He has won both Nebula and Hugo Awards for his short fiction, and his short story “Air Raid” was adapted into the film Millennium. Varley lives in Vancouver, Washington. For more information, visit varley.net.
FROM BOOKLIST
Howard Christian, the world’s reigning multibillionaire computer genius, has a passion for collecting vintage automobiles, action toys, and now, mammoths. Although his mammoth menagerie is just beginning, Christian hits the mother lode when his operatives discover a fully preserved woolly mammoth in Canadian backcountry. Making the discovery even more revolutionary is the presence of an equally well preserved couple, one of whom clutches what appears to be, astonishingly enough, a suitcase-sized time machine. Wielding his considerable financial resources, Christian hires Matthew Wright, the world’s greatest physicist, to unlock the time machine’s secrets. Then, during a sudden temporal shift, Wright jumps back in time, only to return with a herd of rampaging mammoths that terrorizes downtown L.A., and Christian’s troubles begin to snowball. Varley’s latest indulges all the ploys of a Michael -Crichton-style blockbuster as it pitches to the reading public’s passion for prehistoric beasts, throws in flashy time-travel paradoxes, and sets up a feud between eccentric geniuses, one of whom, not coincidentally, resembles Bill Gates. Varley’s fans won’t be disappointed. Carl Hays
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
FROM BOOKMARKS MAGAZINE
Over the past three decades, Varley has won almost every SF award. Called ”The New Heinlein” and described by the San Francisco Chronicle as ”a far better science fiction writer than [Michael] Crichton,” Varley has written a captivating time-travel thriller. Although he delves deeply into scientific and metaphysical principles, Varley never loses sight of his characters, who, like the engaging baby mammoth Fuzzy, keep the book alive. Besides its great humor, intelligent prose, spiritual discovery, and great emotional range, critics also praised the novel’s clever structure: it begins with chapter five. ”The result,” writes Shaun Farrell, ”is a unique piece of work: a book that makes you think critically while keeping it enjoyable and fun.”
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Starred Review. When eccentric megabillionaire Howard Christian commissions a hunt for a frozen mammoth in northern Manitoba to clone a new model in Varley’s rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology, he gets more than he bargained for: next to the 12,000-year-old beast his team unearths lies the body of a human being, wearing a wristwatch, with a metal box—a time machine?—nearby. Christian hires Matt Wright, Canada’s top scientist on the physics of time, to fix the machine, and employs elephant vet Susan Morgan to oversee the cloning of a new mammoth. The machine hurls Matt and Susan back to the mammoth age, then forward again, along with a baby Columbian woolly mammoth, Fuzzy, whose engaging story cleverly alternates with Christian’s indefatigable quest for personal fame. Varley’s sparkling wit pulls one surprise after another out of this unconventional blend of science and social commentary with real people convincingly doing unreal things. Fuzzy, though, is the true hero, an irresistible 15-foot-tall reminder of the wonders of nature and imagination. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula awards, Varley (Millennium) should garner new laurels with this outstanding effort.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
“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
REVIEW
PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF JOHN VARLEY
“Varley is a kind of latter-day, humanist Heinlein, someone who writes science fiction with imagination and verve.” —Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
“The short story is to science fiction what the seven-inch single was to rock: the most perfect yet the most mercilessly demanding form. My life-experience of John Varley’s stories has been that the great majority of them are quite literally unforgettable.” —William Gibson
“John Varley is the best writer in America.” —Tom Clancy
“[Varley is] one of science fiction’s most important writers.” —The Washington Post
“Superior science fiction.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Varley has earned the mantle of Heinlein.” —Locus
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Varley is the author of the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), the Thunder and Lightning Series (Red Thunder, Red Lightning, Rolling Thunder, and Dark Lightning), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Mammoth, and many more novels. He has won both Nebula and Hugo Awards for his short fiction, and his short story “Air Raid” was adapted into the film Millennium. Varley lives in Vancouver, Washington. For more information, visit varley.net.
FROM BOOKLIST
Howard Christian, the world’s reigning multibillionaire computer genius, has a passion for collecting vintage automobiles, action toys, and now, mammoths. Although his mammoth menagerie is just beginning, Christian hits the mother lode when his operatives discover a fully preserved woolly mammoth in Canadian backcountry. Making the discovery even more revolutionary is the presence of an equally well preserved couple, one of whom clutches what appears to be, astonishingly enough, a suitcase-sized time machine. Wielding his considerable financial resources, Christian hires Matthew Wright, the world’s greatest physicist, to unlock the time machine’s secrets. Then, during a sudden temporal shift, Wright jumps back in time, only to return with a herd of rampaging mammoths that terrorizes downtown L.A., and Christian’s troubles begin to snowball. Varley’s latest indulges all the ploys of a Michael -Crichton-style blockbuster as it pitches to the reading public’s passion for prehistoric beasts, throws in flashy time-travel paradoxes, and sets up a feud between eccentric geniuses, one of whom, not coincidentally, resembles Bill Gates. Varley’s fans won’t be disappointed. Carl Hays
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
FROM BOOKMARKS MAGAZINE
Over the past three decades, Varley has won almost every SF award. Called ”The New Heinlein” and described by the San Francisco Chronicle as ”a far better science fiction writer than [Michael] Crichton,” Varley has written a captivating time-travel thriller. Although he delves deeply into scientific and metaphysical principles, Varley never loses sight of his characters, who, like the engaging baby mammoth Fuzzy, keep the book alive. Besides its great humor, intelligent prose, spiritual discovery, and great emotional range, critics also praised the novel’s clever structure: it begins with chapter five. ”The result,” writes Shaun Farrell, ”is a unique piece of work: a book that makes you think critically while keeping it enjoyable and fun.”
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Starred Review. When eccentric megabillionaire Howard Christian commissions a hunt for a frozen mammoth in northern Manitoba to clone a new model in Varley’s rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology, he gets more than he bargained for: next to the 12,000-year-old beast his team unearths lies the body of a human being, wearing a wristwatch, with a metal box—a time machine?—nearby. Christian hires Matt Wright, Canada’s top scientist on the physics of time, to fix the machine, and employs elephant vet Susan Morgan to oversee the cloning of a new mammoth. The machine hurls Matt and Susan back to the mammoth age, then forward again, along with a baby Columbian woolly mammoth, Fuzzy, whose engaging story cleverly alternates with Christian’s indefatigable quest for personal fame. Varley’s sparkling wit pulls one surprise after another out of this unconventional blend of science and social commentary with real people convincingly doing unreal things. Fuzzy, though, is the true hero, an irresistible 15-foot-tall reminder of the wonders of nature and imagination. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula awards, Varley (Millennium) should garner new laurels with this outstanding effort.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author:
John Varley
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Publisher:
Ace
Barcode:
9780441012817
Publication Date:
2020-09-01
Copyright Year:
2005
Number of Copies:
2
Language:
English
Has Dustcover:
Yes
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-01-11
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:54:29
