From a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee, “intelligent reptiles battle stone age humans for control of an alternate Earth” (Kirkus Reviews).
Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun.
But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve intelligent life?
In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.
Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans’ leader . . . and the dinosaurs’ greatest enemy.
West of Eden is a monumental epic of love and savagery, bravery and hope.
“A perfectly grand storyteller.” —David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Star Tide Rising
“Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison, a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights.” —Publishers Weekly
Harry Harrison (1925–2012) began writing science fiction in the 1950s and remains one of the top-selling authors in the genre. Harrison is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat, Deathworld, and West of End series, as well as Make Room! Make Room!, which was turned into the movie Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. His novels have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and in 2009 he was awarded the Damon Knight SF Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America.