A review by moholub
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

5.0

Nayler's newest novella is a one-two punch of beautiful and devastating. In a world where all elephants in the wild have been driven to extinction by poachers, the science world has chosen instead to resurrect the long-dead wooly mammoths--science for the sake of science meets want for the sake of want when this great biological experiment is put up against a revival of ivory poaching culture. Lyrical prose leads the reader through three stories colliding on the fringes of humanity, testing empathy, compassion, and the insurmountable power of human greed.