When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the
West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen
bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected--he
hoped!--that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor
Arnason's imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder
over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the
Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga
that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of
Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the AIM protests of the 1960s,
Arnason tells of a modern woman's struggle to use the weapons of DNA
science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage.
PLUS: "Writing SF During World War III," and an Outspoken Interview
that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today's
edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.