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Series of novels by Stephen Baxter

The Mammoth Trilogy is a series of books by hard science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The books in it were published between 1999 and 2001. It contains the novels Silverhair, Longtusk and Icebones.

An omnibus volume containing all three novels was released in 2004, with the title Behemoth.

Silverhair

Silverhair, the first book, was published in 1999. This story is about Silverhair, a female mammoth. On an isolated Russian island near the Arctic Circle, a clan of intelligent mammoths have survived the ice age and into the modern day, though their numbers are dwindling as the climate warms. A group of humans come ashore and start hunting the mammoths. The herd tries to escape and then it fights back. The mammoths are depicted as having near-human intelligence and an oral culture that goes back millions of years.

Longtusk

Longtusk is the second book, published in 1999. Set in the far past, when the glaciers are retreating, Longtusk tells the story of the mammoths' early encounters with humanity.

Icebones

Icebones is the third book, published in 2001. The novel is set in 3000 AD. After colonizing Mars some time ago and planning to populate the terraformed planet with ancient animals from Earth, humans had disappeared. One of the animals now left to fend for themselves is Icebones, daughter of Silverhair, who as the only adult mammoth taken to Mars also has responsibility for the herd.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews said in their review that it is "impossible not to cheer for Baxter's plucky pachyderms: a saga that, even at its most improbable, engages the reader's heart and mind." Jackie Cassada, in her review for Library Journal, wrote, "Baxter brings the great creatures of Earth's prehistory to life."

References

"ICEBONES (Book)". Kirkus Reviews. 70 (6): 372. 15 March 2002. ISSN 0042-6598.
Cassada, Jackie (15 June 2002). "Icebones (Book)". Library Journal. 127 (11): 100.

External links

Stephen Baxter official website

v t e Works by Stephen Baxter
Xeelee Sequence	Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams Reality Dust Riding the Rock Mayflower II Starfall Gravity Dreams Xeelee: Endurance Destiny's Children Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent
Manifold Trilogy	Time Space Origin Phase Space
Mammoth trilogy	Silverhair Longtusk Icebones
A Time Odyssey	Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn
The Web	Gulliverzone Webcrash
Time's Tapestry	Emperor Conqueror Navigator Weaver
NASA Trilogy	Voyage Titan Moonseed
Flood/Ark	Flood Ark
Northland trilogy	Stone Spring Bronze Summer Iron Winter
The Long Earth	The Long Earth The Long War The Long Mars The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos
Proxima	Proxima Ultima
Others	"The Twelfth Album" Anti-Ice The Time Ships The Light of Other Days Evolution The H-Bomb Girl The Wheel of Ice The Medusa Chronicles The Massacre of Mankind Creation Node
Unrelated collections	Traces The Hunters of Pangaea

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