River of Teeth - BookWyrm.World

Paperback, 176 pages

English language

Published Feb. 16, 2017

ISBN:: 978-0-7653-9522-1

(1 review)

In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.

Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.

This was a terrible plan.

Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.

River of Teeth is a 2017 alternate history novella by Sarah Gailey. It was first published by Tor Books. The cover art is by Richard Anderson.

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David Scrimshaw reviewed River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth, #1)

Review of 'River of Teeth (River of Teeth, #1)' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

If you like modern cowboy stories, like say those by [a:Guy Vanderhaeghe|98125|Guy Vanderhaeghe|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1253558267p2/98125.jpg], you'll probably like this.

But this has the added bonus that the cowboys ride hippos!

I kind of suspect that if hippos could be ridden like horses, people in Africa would be doing it, but it's fun to think of how the USA would be different if they had introduced hippos to Louisiana in the 1800s.