Book description
THE TRILOGY CONCLUDES...
In West of Eden
and Winter in Eden
, Harry Harrison, an 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 they only effective weapons lie in the
hands of the technologically superior Yilanè. The small band of humans
has no choice but to confront their face head-on.
And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vaintè, his implacable Yilantè
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 -
an obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him. In a
world completely unlike her 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 completely unlike ourselves - or mutually
perish. Harry Harrison (1925 - 2012)
Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925.
He is the author of a number of much-loved series including the
Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero sequences and the
Deathworld Trilogy. He is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto
, the most popular of the constructed international languages, which
appears in many of his novels. He has been publishing novels for over
half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of
overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!
, which was adapted into the cult film Soylent Green
. He died in 2012.
