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BAXTER, STEPHEN Icebones - Ice Bones Mammoth Book Three 3 Iii . . . The Wolly Mammoths on the Sky Steppe of the Abandoned Colony on Mars - By Stephen Baxter
London: Gollancz, 2001. First Thus. Soft Cover. 6 x 9" 0575072148 2001 Softcover 1st imported from London ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 278 pages ... "There is a flat, sharp, close horizon ... a plain of dust and rocks ... The rocks are carved by the wind ... Everything is stained rust brown ... like dried blood... like shadows long and sharp ... This is Sky Steppe ... This is Mars ... The time is 3000 years A.D... The rocky land rings to the calls of the mammoths ... But no human hears them ... The colony on Mars has failed and the last colonists have returned to Earth ... The animals they brought with them as frozen embryos ... then raised ... have been left to perish on this new world ... But Icebones ... daughter of Silverhair ... the one adult mammoth taken to the planet Mars ... has been released from cryogenic storage by the departing humans ... Icebones alone carries the accumulated knowledge of the great story cycle learnt from her mother ... Icebones alone can teach the mammoths to survive .. and flourish ... without their human keepers ... Icebones alone can lead the mammoths to inherit the fabled Sky Steppe of the abandoned Martian colony " ... " Icebones - Mammoth Book Three " ... by Stephen Baxter ... published by Gollancz , London 2001 softcover ***. New .
Offered for US$ 14.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 1795
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