Analicemos esta premisa:Un multimillonario excéntrico necesita clonar un mamut. Se localiza uno en una provincia canadiense. Durante el proceso de excavación, se descubre que, acurrucado junto a la criatura, está el cuerpo de un hombre de la Edad de Piedra de unos 12.000 años de antigüedad.Lleva puesto un reloj de pulsera.¡¡¡Chan chan chaaaaan!!!Solté un pequeño chillido cuando leí eso, y el tema de La Dimensión Desconocida comenzó a sonar en mi cabeza. Y, ¿estuvo el libro a la altura de la prem...

[7/10] Una buena historia, se lee más como un thriller que como un libro de ciencia ficción. Tiene algunas especulaciones sobre viajes en el tiempo y la naturaleza de la realidad, pero se sienten un poco metidas con calzador en la historia. Me gustaron los personajes principales: el matemático un poco trastornado, la enérgica cuidadora de elefantes, el multimillonario friki. Principalmente lo compré para leer sobre mamuts y el libro cumplió su función de una manera entretenida. La narración es f...

Easy to read and moderately entertaining. I didn’t feel much engagement with the characters, unfortunately, and would have liked more time in the time travel parts. Yay for mammoths though.

MammothBy John VarleyI was completely enthralled with this novel! It has everything I love in a book! There's an archaeological find that has a well preserved Mammoth, a man with a modern wrist watch, a metal case (time machine), and a message. A billionaire with a desire to pay the best people to use the mammoth sperm to impregnate an elephant, and get the time machine to work. This is the story of the billionaire, the math genius, and the elephant specialist. It's a wild ride, non-stop intrigu...

Multi-billionaire Howard has a “thing” for elephants and mammoths. When he gets his hands on a frozen excavated mammoth, he hires elephant trainer Susan to help impregnate an elephant to create an elephant-mammoth hybrid. Also with that frozen excavated mammoth was found a Stone Age man – with a wristwatch! And a box. Howard figures the box is a time machine and he hires genius mathematician Matt to figure it out. I really liked this. It started off fast paced, and there were plenty of other fas...

3.5 stars

This book started out with GREAT potential! I was hooked early on, but the story lost a bit toward the end. I would have given it 3.5 if possible, just because the beginning was so good.

I enjoyed this time-travelling adventure, still musing about the star-rating it deserves. Was it really a four-star read, or was it just so much more fun than my current book club selection, which is boring me mightily? I think I’ll leave it at the 4 stars.A billionaire who is obsessed with prehistoric animals is having a frozen mammoth excavated from the barren wilderness of Nunavut with plans of cloning it. As the excavation advances, it becomes obvious that there is also a person frozen into ...

This book is probably better suited to a young teenager into mammoths and time travel. Easy holiday read but no depth to the characters and more holes in the plot than a fishing net. Basically multimillionaire business man, funds mammoth dig project, man with watch found next to mammoth... therefore time travel must exist. Millionaire then starts funding 2 parallel programmes, one into cloning mammoths and the other into time travel. Boy meets girl, strange things happen, and predictably everyon...

I hadn't realized how much I have missed reading Varley until getting into this.The title, and the premise as described on the jacket, didn't do anything for me, but as I have always enjoyed a John Varley book I decided to read this as well, and am glad I did!Varley has a way of engaging the reader, bringing us into his story, rather than keeping us as observers.This is not Varley's best ... there are a number of "problems" I had with it, and it was moderately easy to predict the outcome, but a ...