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''[[West of Eden]]'' is a 1984 science fiction novel by [[Harry Harrison]], followed by two sequels: ''Winter in Eden'' and ''Return to Eden.''
Set in an [[Alternate History]] where dinosaurs never went extinct (outside of North America, where modern mammals and eventually humans evolved), the story centers around the conflict between humans and the Yilanè, a race of intelligent amphibious reptiles. The main character, Kerrick, is a human who was raised by Yilanè.
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* [[Alternate History|Alternate Prehistory]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Some editions of the book carry a brief index of Yilanè bio-technology.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Intelligent mosasaurs that reproduce like [[Mister Seahorse|seahorses]]. Their bio-engineered tools are even more bizarre: living dart guns, microscopes that are actually highly modified ''frogs'', squid and icthyosaur vehicles...
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The Yilanè's [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] leads to them having a strange moral compass. For example, lying is impossible (and the concept never even occurs to them until {{spoiler|Vaintè learns about it from Kerrick}}), and they are absolutely loyal to their communities to the point of dying upon exile; exiles who ''don't'' seize up and die are completely insane by Yilanè standards.
* [[Call a Rabbit
* [[Cavemen]]: Co-existing with dinosaurs, but there's an [[Alternate History|in-story reason for this]].
* [[Dating Catwoman]]
* [[Death
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Humans and Yilanè are not on speaking terms.
* [[Fictionary]]
* [[Guilt-Free Extermination War]]: Explored. The majority of Yilanè just see massacring ustuzou (humans) as pest control, and most humans return the favor. Vaintè at first considers useful ustuzou like Kerrick to be worth keeping around as tools (and later becomes psychotically obsessed with their destruction), but the Daughters of Life recognize ustuzou as sapient beings worthy of life and respect. Kerrick (after rejoining the humans) rejects the position that Yilanè are [[
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: For, erm, [[Rape
* [[Lady Land]]: The
* [[Language of Truth]]: The nature of Yilanè language and thought processes makes them incapable of lying...{{spoiler|until Vaintè discovers the concept after seeing Kerrick do it}}.
* [[Lizard Folk]]
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* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The Yilanè are ''somewhat'' humanoid in shape, but that's all that's humanoid about them.
* [[Starfish Language]]: A complicated combination of spoken words, positioning/gestures and color signals, described as so difficult that many Yilané never even get the hang of it.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Quite a few ([[Call a Rabbit
* [[Thunderbolt Iron]]
* [[Translation Convention]]
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[[Category:Alternate History Literature]]
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[[Category:Literature]]
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