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I picked Mammoth up semi-randomly at the library a few days ago, because I've liked a lot of Varley's earlier work (not all, but a lot) and elephants are cool..
The premise of the book is that researchers (funded by a biotech billionaire who wants to be Bruce Wayne) are working on cloning a mammoth when they stumble on a time machine; they then find themselves with an actual live mammoth born 12,000 years ago.
It's a quick read. I decided partway through that it had too much circus and not enough time travel; some people might consider this a feature rather than a bug, but what I wanted wasn't more paradoxes and mathematical hand-waving, but more Pleistocene scenery and fauna.
( mild spoiler warning for a book I'm not impressed by )
The premise of the book is that researchers (funded by a biotech billionaire who wants to be Bruce Wayne) are working on cloning a mammoth when they stumble on a time machine; they then find themselves with an actual live mammoth born 12,000 years ago.
It's a quick read. I decided partway through that it had too much circus and not enough time travel; some people might consider this a feature rather than a bug, but what I wanted wasn't more paradoxes and mathematical hand-waving, but more Pleistocene scenery and fauna.
( mild spoiler warning for a book I'm not impressed by )
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