Icebones

First edition (publ. Gollancz)
Cover art by Peter Barrett

Icebones is a 2001 novel by Stephen Baxter. It is the third book in the Mammoth Trilogy. An omnibus edition, incorporating all three novels of this series, was published as Behemoth (2004).

Plot introduction

The novel is set in 3000 A.D. After colonizing Mars some time ago and planning to populate the terraformed planet with ancient animals from Earth, humans had disappeared. One of the animals now left to fend for themselves is Icebones, daughter of Silverhair, who as the only adult mammoth taken to Mars also has responsibility for the herd.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews said in their review that its "impossible not to cheer for Baxter's plucky pachyderms: a saga that, even at its most improbable, engages the reader's heart and mind."^[1] Jackie Cassada in her review for Library Journal said that "Baxter brings the great creatures of Earth's prehistory to life."^[2]

Notes

↑ "ICEBONES (Book)". Kirkus Reviews. 70 (6): 372. 15 March 2002. ISSN 0042-6598.
↑ Cassada, Jackie (15 June 2002). "Icebones (Book)". Library Journal. 127 (11): 100.

Works by Stephen Baxter

Xeelee Sequence	Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams Reality Dust Riding the Rock Resplendent Starfall

Destiny's Children	Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent

Manifold Trilogy	Time Space Origin Phase Space

Mammoth trilogy	Silverhair Longtusk Icebones

A Time Odyssey	Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn

The Web	Gulliverzone Webcrash

Time's Tapestry	Emperor Conqueror Navigator Weaver

NASA Trilogy	Voyage Titan Moonseed

Flood/Ark	Flood Ark

Northland trilogy	Stone Spring Bronze Summer Iron Winter

The Long Earth	The Long Earth The Long War The Long Mars The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos

Proxima	Proxima Ultima

Others	"The Twelfth Album" Anti-Ice The Time Ships The Light of Other Days Evolution The H-Bomb Girl The Wheel of Ice The Medusa Chronicles

Unrelated collections	Traces The Hunters of Pangaea

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