Sometimes the universe sends signs. Once, an uncle named Timur gave little Damira a toy elephant, and this simple cloth creature became the starting point of her entire life. Growing up, Damira devoted herself to fighting poachers and traders in ivory. In this unequal battle against human greed, she, like many of her fellow rangers, died—but that wasn’t the end of the story. Her consciousness was digitized, and a hundred years later it was transferred into the brain of a revived female mammoth. A human woman was meant to help the new species stay on the edge of survival—pass on knowledge, support the population, and teach them to be mammoths.
However, human cruelty didn’t run out: the scientist who brought the mammoths back to life is already preparing to take a billionaire on a safari…
▫️▫️▫️ This is a collection of intelligent science fiction: the novella “The Age of the Tusk” and several stories, united into a loose cycle titled “The Istanbul Protectorate.”