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CRITCAL ACCLAIM FOR HARRY HARRISON'S WEST OF EDEN SAGA:
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

WINTER IN EDEN
"DON'T WAIT FOR THE PAPERBACK.  THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST ADVENTURE STORIES OF THE YEAR."
- SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE

"EXQUISITELY RESEARCHED AND UNDERPINNED WITH 'HARD' SCIENTIFIC EXTRAPOLATION, WINTER IN EDEN IS A DETAILED EXPLORATION OF AN INTRIGUING ALTERNATIVE."
- SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

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RETURN
TO EDEN

THE TRILOGY CONCLUDES...

In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, Harry Harrison, am acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with his most ambitious project to date.  He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, The Yilanè, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy.

Now, in Return to Eden, Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion.  After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilanè, they must regroup and consider their future.  They find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives.  But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outcasts hope to survive?  They need weapons, but the only effective weapons lie in the hands of the technologically superior Yilanè.  The small band of humans have no choice but to confront their fate head-on.

And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vaintè, his implacable Yilanè enemy.  She's been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last?  For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a hatred even more powerful than her inbred instincts - and obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him.  In a world completely unlike our own, two great cultures struggling for mastery of the Earth face the same problem that faces us today: how to coexist on the same planet with others completely unlike ourselves - or mutually perish.  Eagerly awaited by millions of Harry Harrison fans around the world, Return to Eden is the poignant and compelling finale to this spectacularly popular and masterfully imagined series.

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THE WORLD
WEST OF EDEN

A dazzling, imaginative and rousing yarn, the West of Eden saga is also a rigorously researched scientific scenario of alternate history.  Working in collaboration with an international team of scientific experts in biology, engineering, language, anthropolgy 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 more than 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 his next novel.

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"A gripping adventure story of prehistoric men and women facing fearful odds... should appeal to readers who have enjoyed Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses." - Fritz Leiber

"West of Eden is truly a bravura performance.  I predict that its popularity will rival Dune, to which I consider it superior as a totally realized extrapolation." - Thomas N. Scortia

"West of Eden is Harrison's best book in years, inventive, engrossing, and solidly based on what might have been." - Ben Bova

Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm exterminated three quarters of all species on earth.  Overnight the age of dinosaurs was ended: the age of mammals had begun.

But if that disaster had never happened and the dinosaurs had survived to fulfill their evolutionary destiny, this is what the world might have been.  The world West of Eden.

Harry Harrison, a modern master of imaginative fiction, has created a gripping, vividly rendered epic of prehistory about the tragic, inevitable clash of two mighty races: the Yilane, cold-blooded intelligent reptiles who have dominated the earth and the Tanu, warm blooded humans like ourselves, a proud, fierce hunting clan destined to oppose them.

West of Eden is the remarkable odyssey of Kerrick, a young Tanu hunter captured by the Yilane and raised as one of them by their ruthless matriarch.  As he grows to manhood, Kerrick is schooled in the strange customs, exotic biological sciences, and rigid caste structure of Yilane culture, and for a time all but forgets his heritage.

When at last he escapes and rejoins his people, Kerrick is at first an outcast.  Then, among his tribesmen, he finds love and begins a family, and rises to become the leader of the Tanu.  As Yilane raids threaten the future of the Tanu, Kerrick leads his clan on an arduous trek to unite the human tribes in a confrontation with their enemy that will alter forever the course of history.

A fascinating and deeply moving saga of two cultures fated to struggle for control of the earth,  West of Eden is also a scientifically accurate projection of what could have been the true history of our world.  Throughout this powerful story, and in a detailed appendix, "The World West of Eden,"

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Harry Harrison brings to life the grology, biology, cultures, and languages of this incredible world, working in collaboration with an international team of scientific experts, including Dr. Jack Cohen, research biologist at the University of Birmingham, England; Dr. John R. Pierce, Professor of Engineering at California Institute of Technology; Professor T. A. Shippey, founder and chairman of the Language and Mediaeval Departments of the University of Leeds, England; and Dr. Leon E. Stover, Anthropoligist and Sinologist of Ilinois Institute of Technology.

HARRY HARRISON is one of the most successful and respected authors of speculative fiction writing today.  In a career that spans over three decades, Harry Harrison has written more than a dozen novels including Deathworld, Skyfall and the anti-utopian classic Make Room! Make Room!, basis for the film Soylent Green, as well as numerous short stories.  Harrison worked as a commercial artist, art director, and editor before turning to writing full time.  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.  Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, has made his home in Mexico and in several European countries over the years, and now lives in Ireland.

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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.

THE WORLD
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.