Return to Eden (novel)
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Return To Eden is a 1988 science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by American writer Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! , the basis for the film Soylent Green...

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The novel is the third and final volume in Harrison's Eden series. The first two stories of the trilogy are West of Eden
West of Eden
West of Eden is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison.-Overview:In the parallel universe of this novel, Earth was not struck by an asteroid 65 million years before the present...

and Winter in Eden
Winter in Eden
Winter in Eden is a 1986 science fiction novel by American author Harry Harrison, the second in the Eden series.It tells an alternate history of planet Earth in which the extinction of the dinosaurs never occurred...

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The novel tells an alternate history of planet Earth
Earth
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 in which the extinction
Extinction
In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...

 of the dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s never occurred. There is a war between a group of Cro-Magnon
Cro-Magnon
The Cro-Magnon were the first early modern humans of the European Upper Paleolithic. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiometrically dated to 35,000 years before present....

-level humans and a reptilian race called the Yilanè, who are descended from the prehistoric mosasaur
Mosasaur
Mosasaurs are large extinct marine lizards. The first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1764...

 and have become the dominant lifeform on the planet.

The central characters from the first book return, Vaintè, an ambitious Yilanè, and Kerrick
Kerrick
Kerrick may refer to:*Kerrick, Minnesota, a small city in the United States*Kerrick, Texas, an unincorporated community*Kerrick Township, Minnesota*A humanoid character raised by reptiloids in West of Eden...

, a "ustouzou" (the Yilanè word for mammal) captured by the Yilanè as a boy and raised by them. Kerrick eventually escapes to rejoin his own people and burn the Yilanè colony city.

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