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Liked It “VERY cool story about time travel. I have to say I got lost a few times, being completely unable to understand how or when this or that had happened. It did all come together in the end, though, very satisfyingly.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“VERY cool story about time travel. I have to say I got lost a few times, being completely unable to understand how or when this or that had happened. It did all come together in the end, though, very satisfyingly.”
Eileen M wrote this review Saturday, August 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The book starts off with a mammoth being found in Canada. What makes this different from any other mammoth found was what was included with the mammoth.
Ranko wrote this review Friday, March 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Two humans, one of them wearing a wristwatch. They also find what appears to be a time machine.
Howard Christian, the multi-billionaire, is the one behind all of this, and he wants to do a mammoth-cloning project and he wants the time machine fixed. Enter Susan, an expert elephant handler, and Matt, a genius in mathematics.
Susan and Matt get into the past, but also back into the future, accidentally bringing a bunch of mammoths with them. The rest of the book deals with Matt disappearing for a while, in search of something, Susan caring for Little Fuzzy, one of the surviving mammoths, and what can happen when you care for something more than the owner.
The book also, in the early part, uses a very interesting technique, using certain chapters to tell the story of the mammoths from their own viewpoint in the past. It's a really, really good book.”
“Multi-billionaire Howard Christian is an eccentric sort who likes to actually play with his toys. His latest obsession is to clone a woolly mammoth. During an expedition in northern Canada, an intact, but mummified mammoth is found. Huddled in the mammoth's fur is a Stone Age man approximately 12,000 years old...wearing a wristwatch.
plappen wrote this review Wednesday, March 18 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Matthew Wright, science prodigy, is brought in to figure out what is in the metal suitcase clutched in the Stone Age man's arms. It's some sort of time machine, involving what look like many glass marbles. One day, Matt gets it to work, and takes himself, Susan Wright, who is taking care of a herd of elephants involved in the cloning plan, the elephants, and a Santa Monica warehouse, about 12,000 years in the past. After several days in the past, Matt gets the time machine to work again, and brings himself and Susan back to the present, along with a herd of half a dozen mastodons that happened to be nearby at the time. A baby mastodon, nicknamed Little Fuzzy, and Big Mama, his mother, are the only survivors when they appear in the middle of L.A. traffic.
Five years later, Little Fuzzy is the star of a multi-media extravaganza of a circus in Oregon. Susan is still his handler, because Little Fuzzy won't work with anyone else. She comes up with the idea of kidnapping Fuzzy, and freeing him in the wilds of northern Canada, where he could have something resembling a normal life. But Howard Christian is not about to let that happen.
Does any circus, no matter how progressive, automatically equal mistreating of animals? That's one of the questions explored in this fine piece of storytelling. It is more than just a really good time travel story, and it's well worth reading.
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