Winter in Eden
Winter in Eden is a 1986 science fiction novel by American author Harry Harrison, the second in the Eden series.
It tells an alternate history of planet Earth in which the extinction of the dinosaurs never occurred. The story began in West of Eden, which depicts a war between a group of Cro-Magnon-level humans and a reptilian race called the Yilanè, who are descended from the prehistoric mosasaur and have become the dominant lifeform on the planet. The central characters from the first book return: Vaintè, an ambitious Yilanè, and Kerrick, a "ustouzou" (the Yilanè word for mammal) who was captured by the Yilanè as a boy, raised as a Yilanè, and eventually escapes to rejoin his own people and burn the Yilanè colony city.
In Winter in Eden, the reptiloids use their mastery of biology to reconquer human territory. Kerrick launches an arduous quest to rally a final defense for the humanoid Tanu. With his wife and young son, he heads north to the land of the whale hunters, enlisting their help to venture further east into the enemy's stronghold, and south to a fateful reckoning with destiny.
The trilogy continues with Return to Eden.
[edit] External links
- Winter in Eden page on Official website
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