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Icebones by Baxter, Stephen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Icebones about?

Transported to the Sky Steppe of Mars in the final, satisfying book in British author BaxterвЂTMs highly original Mammoth trilogy ( Longtusk; Silverhair ), his engaging wooly characters face an abandoned and potentially lethal terraforming experiment left there by humans (aka “the Lost”). Matriarch mammoth SilverhairвЂTMs daughter, Icebones, awakens from an unnatural slumber to find herself in a land and time far from her native Pleistocene earth. The mammoths here have no knowledge of their ancient culture, such as the teachings of their mighty progenitor, Kilukpuk. Mammoth tradition says the Sky Steppe is “the Island in the sky where... mammoths would one day find a world of their own, free from the predations and cruelty of the Lost, a world of calm and plenty” yet whatever promise Mars once held is fading now as the changes made by human engineers are reversed under the assault of the red planetвЂTMs uncompromising weather and geology. IcebonesвЂTMs companions, used to depending on the Lost for everything, canвЂTMt possibly survive alone. Their only hope is to cross half the world to reach the Footfall of Kilukpuk, a rich valley full of all the sweet grass and water the

Who reads Icebones?

Author

Baxter, Stephen

Publisher

Eos

Published

2002

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction