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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR HARRY HARRISON'S WEST OF EDEN:
"An epic in the tradition of The Clan of the Cave Bear.... Great escape reading." - Playboy
"An absorbing, poignant portrait.... His best novel in years." - New York Daily News
"An exciting adventure into a 'what if' world. A brilliant work of creative imagination, one that rivals in conception, scope and execution of plot Jean Auel's best selling novels." - Nashville Banner
"A big novel in every sense,,,, Written with skill and integrity.... Consistently inventive, it is also fun." - Washington Post Book World
WINTER
IN EDEN
Long acknowledged as one of science fiction's most gifted storytellers, Harry Harrison broke new ground with WEST OF EDEN, his most ambitious novel to date. In a daring feat of the imagination, Harrison envisioned the world as it might have been - a world in which the age of reptiles never ended, and their intelligent decendants, the Yilanè, slashed with humans like ourselves for mastery of the Earth.
WEST OF EDEN told of Kerrick, a young human captured and raised among the Yilanè, who became their most feared enemy. As leader of the hunting clan known as the Tanu, Kerrick led a great army against the Yilanè, driving them from their beachhead on the western continent. Now, Harrison continues the saga of this remarkable world in a new epic of conflict, courage and passion. A new ice age threatens the Earth. Each year the world grown colder. Faced with racial extinction, the cold-blooded Yilanè have no choice but to reconquer human territory using their mastery of biology to produce new and deadly weapons. In flight from their savage raid, Kerrick tries desperately to rally the Tanu to the defense of humanity.
Pursured by a ruthless female Yilanè war chief whose strange attraction to Kerrick has turned to hatred, Kerrick begins an ardouos journey of adventure, danger and self-discovery, accompanied by his beloved Armun and their young son. His -
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quest leads north to the land of the furred whale hunters known as the Paramutan, east to the Yilanè stronghold and south to a fateful reckoning with destiny. A poignant, compelling novel of two cultures caught in a tragic struggle for survival, WINTER IN EDEN is a masterwork of the imagination.
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WEST OF EDEN
A dazzling imaginative and rousing yran, the West of Eden saga is also a rigorously researched scientific scenario of alternate histoty. Working in collaboration with an international team of scientific experts in biology, engineering, language, anthropology and philosophy, Harrison has created a believable, rishly detailed world rivaling Frank Herbert's Dune and Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, in the majesty of its scope and conception.
In a career that spans over three decades, Harry Harrison has written more than a dozen novels including the humorous Stainless Steel Rat novels, and the classic Make Room! Make Room!, basis for the film Soylent Green. A past president of the World Science Fiction Association, he is also a noted anthologist, editing the acclaimed Nova series and co-editing the highly praised Decade and Year's Best SF volumes with British author Brian Aldiss. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Harrison now lives with his wife in County Wicklow, Ireland where he is at work on the concluding volume in the West of Eden tilogy.