West of Eden

About 65 million years ago, it is supposed that dinosaurs disappeared from Earth. But what if they had not been? From a master of imaginative storytelling comes an epic tale of the world as it might have been, a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, and their descendants clashed with the humans. The story is set in the Americas, where a clan of native humans survives by hunting and fishing. Suddenly they clash with a new race that comes from across the ocean — the lizards who are a much more advanced civilization, progressing not through technology, but through animal-breeding. They breed new kinds of animals, each one serving as a machine designed for a specific purpose. A human teenager is caught by the lizards and survives in their city, first as an animal, then as a prisoner, then as a member of society. Still, his human instincts takes over and he betrays his masters, escapes and leads the humans to destroying the lizard city and driving them back across...

Author: Harrison Harry
ISBN: 553050656
Year of publication: 1984
Collection: Eden
Genre: Social fiction
Number of pages: 531
Reading time: 8 h. 51 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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