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Description
An intact wooly mammoth is discovered frozen in Canada. Huddled next to the huge creature is the mummified body of a Stone Age man around 12,000 years old. And he is wearing a wristwatch.
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Howard Christian: billionaire techo-nerd
- Matt Wright: math nerd who loses the power of speech at unpredictable moments
- Susan Morgan: elephant trainer turned vet
- Fuzzy: star attraction
- Big Mama: cranky matriarch
Memorable Quotes
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“Using all the data he had collected he wrote a computer program, a virtual trout, in which he could adjust twenty-seven variables. After a long series of runs on the computer he had charts of optimum conditions He could then cast a virtual fly into his program, and see if his cyber-trout was interested enough to bite.”
First Sentence
Once upon a time in what would one day come to be known as the month of August, many, many years ago, in a place that would one day be known as Manitoba, a herd of mammoths came over the low hills to the south and into a gentle green valley rich with the scent of water.
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