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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] I'm currently re-reading Harry Harrison's "West of Eden" trilogy (West of Eden, Winter in Eden and Return to Eden). For those of you unfamiliar with this, the story is a "what if?" wondering what would have happened had the giant lizards evolved into more modern, 6 ft. (or thereabouts) tall intelligent beings coexisting on Earth with humans. [QUOTE][i]And the LORD God planted a garden [b]eastward[/b] in Eden; and there; he put the man who he had formed. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the [b]east [/b]of Eden. GENESIS[/i] The great reptiles were the most successful life-forms ever to populate this world. For 140 million years they rules the Earth, filled the sky, swarmed in the seas. At this time the mammals, the ancestors of mankind, were only tiny, shrew-like animals that were preyed upon by the larger, faster, more intelligent saurians. Then, 65 million years ago, all this changed. A meteor six miles in diameter struck the Earth and caused disastrous atmospheric upheavals. Within a brief span of time over seventy-five percent of all the species then existent were wiped out. The age of the dinosaurs was over; the evolution of the mammals that they had suppressed for 100 million years began. But what if that meteor had not fallen? What would the world be like today? [/QUOTE]It's an incredible series of books and would make an excellent movie trilogy (or more). The goal was to rival the Dune franchise. It didn't quite make it and wasn't nearly as popular, but It is right up there with Dune, in my opinion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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