| West of January | |
| Author: | Dave Duncan |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fantasy novel |
| Release Date: | 1989 (1st edition) |
| Media Type: | Print (Trade paperback & Paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0-345-35836-8 |
| Isbn Note: | (1st edition) |
| Congress: | CPB Box no. 2609 vol. 21 |
| Oclc: | 20184025 |
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.[1]
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.