Mammoths walk the earth again, thanks to a billionaire’s de-extinction project. He sequesters these prehistoric zombies in a remote valley in Colorado and charges other billionaires $10M a pop or so to come gawk at them. All well, then, nothing to see here, move it along, and you and I couldn’t afford it anyway.
But. If you can bring back the mammoths…okay, I’ll stop there so as not to spoil. By far and away the best part of this book is the afterword, where Preston informs us that bringing back the mammoth is at most five years away and names the guy at Harvard who is doing so. What could go wrong?
Quite a lot, actually. We are living in an age where science fiction is turning into science fact right before our eyes, and we are in no way prepared for the results. Good read.