Winter in Eden
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Winter in Eden is a 1986 science fiction novel, second in the Eden series, by Harry Harrison that tells an alternate history of planet Earth in which the extinction of the dinosaurs never occurred. The story began in West of Eden in which there is a war between a group of Cro-Magnon-level humans and a reptilian race called the Yilané, who are descended from dinosaurs and have become the dominant lifeform on the planet. The central characters from the first book return: Vainte, an ambitious Yilane, and Kerrick, a "ustouzou" (the Yilane word for mammal) who was captured by the Yilane as a boy, raised as a Yilane, and eventually escapes to rejoin his own people and burn the Yilané colony city.
In Winter in Eden, the dinosaurs use their mastery of biology to reconquer human territory. Desperately, Kerrick launches an arduous quest to rally a final defense for humankind. With his beloved 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
