Tusks of Extinction

Woolly mammoths have been genetically revived and released into the Siberian taiga, more than a century from now. Bringing the species back has not ended the ivory trade. Poachers have a new animal to hunt, and the herd lives under that threat.

Dr. Damira Khismatullina spent her human life protecting Africa's last elephants from poachers, and she was murdered for it. Her consciousness now lives inside one of the resurrected mammoths. She leads the herd across a forest and plain that remain hostile to the animals.

A party of hunters closes in on the herd, and the novella alternates between Damira's view from inside the mammoth and the people drawn into the chase. Among them are a poacher's idealistic son and the husband of a wealthy trophy hunter.

The story is science fiction of novella length, set against greed and inherited memory. It also looks at how parents shape their children, or fail to, as those children follow them. The book won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novella.