West of January

West of January  
Author(s) Dave Duncan
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy novel
Publication date 1989 (1st edition)
Media type Print (Trade paperback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-345-35836-8 (1st edition)
OCLC Number 20184025
LC Classification CPB Box no. 2609 vol. 21

West of January is a fantasy novel by Dave Duncan. The book won the 1990 Aurora Award (Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English.

Plot introduction

The novel is set on a world called Vernier, on which the cycle of day and night lasts two hundred years. It describes the journey of discovery of Knobil, a herdsman born on the grasslands of Vernier.