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336pp
ISBN: 978-1-59102-546-7
Trade Paperback (6" x 9")
$15
August 2007
Cover Illustration: ©Bob Eggleton
In the year 6303, when earth is bare of anything larger than an insect or a mouse and most people have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas receives a most unusual visitor. His name is Bukoba Mandaka, and he is the last of the Maasai.
Mandaka wants Rojas, senior researcher for Braxton’s Records of Big Game, to find the tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant, tusks that weigh over 200 lb. each. Why? Mandaka will not say, but he will pay enormous sums for them. And Rojas cannot resist the challenge of tracing something lost for 3000 years.
Back and forth through time, in card games, wars, and rivalries, Rojas searches. But as he begins to glimpse the elusive, lost power of ancient Africa, he is seduced, and before long the quest has become his own.
With Ivory, Mike Resnick has created a powerful novel spanning worlds and centuries, an exploration of the nature of history and legend, and a riveting parable for our times.
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Reviews:
“A marvelously satisfying SF novel.... Don’t miss.” —Analog
“[A] display of expert storytelling….What makes this book fun is the way the story is told, drawing the reader into the mystery of the tusks. Resnick is a storytelling machine and Ivory is his well-crafted product….What the reader sees in Ivory is a bunch of millennia-spanning, world-hopping glimpses in the travels of the tusks, but what he gets is a thoroughly engaging read….These are the kinds of well-told stories that make reading such a pleasure. MY RATING: FIVE STARS.” —SF Signal
“Mike Resnick is one of the few American writers who really knows how to write about Africa…. Ivory, which was first published in 1988, demonstrates this, along with Resnick’s flair for solid speculation. Ivory … reminds us again that many science-fiction writers have as good an understanding of history as they do of the future, and Resnick’s Africa – both past and future – is authentic and alive as ever. It’s also got the best cover it has ever had and a great, solid feel – which many classic reissues deserve but don’t receive – thanks to Pyr.” —Bookgasm.com
“[P]rovides a perfect example of this visionary author’s fertile imagination. Resnick, whose work regularly hinges upon the power of legend, has cultivated in these pages an epic history that spans millennia and the breadth of the galaxy.” —TBNWeekly.com (Tampa Bay)
“Delivers pure entertainment and a rollicking good time.” —Alan Dean Foster
"Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick." —Orson Scott Card
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Ender's Game
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