Author | Dave Duncan |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy novel |
Publication date
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1989 (1st edition) |
Media type | Print (Trade paperback & Paperback) |
ISBN | (1st edition) |
OCLC | 20184025 |
LC Class | CPB Box no. 2609 vol. 21 |
West of January is a fantasy novel by Dave Duncan. The book won the 1990 Prix Aurora Award (Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English.
The novel is set on a world called Vernier, on which the cycle of day and night lasts two hundred years. It describes the journey of discovery of Knobil, a herdsman born on the grasslands of Vernier.