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Silverhair

by Stephen Baxter

Series: Behemoth (Book 1)

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A small group of mammoths is alive and well in remote Siberia in our times. Stephen Baxter tells us how they live in a world that's changing from what they know in their sagas and legends. Their enemy is, of course, the Lost Ones, as the mammoths call us humans.

Baxter's written better books, and this is no Watership Down (or Empire of the Ants, which is my favourite animal book). It's not bad, though, and the mammoths seem pretty well researched, at least they're somewhat inhuman. They have their own culture, quite different from us humans.

Since the book was so fast and easy to read, I'm going to continue to the next part of the trilogy - after all, the book gets some pretty strange ideas in the end. In any case, I can't really recommend Silverhair unless you're really into mammoths or books starring animals in general. However, there's lots of violence and cruelty towards animals in this book, so the most sensitive animal lovers, stay away! (Review based on the Finnish translation.)

(Original review at my review blog) ( )
  msaari | Aug 6, 2007 |
On a remote island off Siberia, a small family of Woolly Mammoths, the last of their kind, live out their lives. But then humans come onto the island and soon the Mammoths are running for their lives.

The rest of Stephen Baxter’s books that I’ve read were very enjoyable but this was disappointing for me. The story was very slow, plodding along, and mammoth dung seemed to be mentioned at least once a page, which kind of got a little annoying. It started getting a little better towards the end, but not a great deal and I don’t think I’ll be rushing out to buy the sequel. ( )
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0061020206, Mass Market Paperback)

From Stephen Baxter, one of today's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy, comes this unforgettable saga of life and loss in the grand tradition of Watership Down.

For fifty thousand springs, Silverhair and her kind, the last of the woolly mammoths, have lived in a remote tundra, rimmed by ice and sea and mountain. Soon to be a mother, Silverhair looks to the future with hope. But even as her life begins, the world she loves is ending. A new menace, more vicious than any enemy, is descending upon the snowlands -- a two-legged creature that kills for joy. Desperate to save their kind, Silverhair and the matriarch, Owlheart, must travel across the glacial torrents, beyond the saw-toothed mountains. There they will seek help from the distant cousins who found their destiny in the sea, and from an enemy -- an ice-faced menace known as...the Lost.

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