Helliconia: "Hellonica Spring", "Helliconia Summer", "Helliconia Winter"
Author(s): Brian W. Aldiss
Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the spring, flourish in the summer & then die in the brutal winters. The inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.
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Aldiss is a pre-eminent figure in British SF who's reputation has extended into the literary world The Helliconia books (HELLICONIA SPRING, HELLICONIA SUMMER and HELLICONIA WINTER) are acknowledged as his masterpiece HELLICONIA SPRING won the John. W. Campbell Award Aldiss has also won the Hugo (twice), the Nebula, the BSFA, the James Blish and the Pilgrim Awards The books that set the standard for imagination and worldbuilding in SF
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Gollancz
- : 0.916
- : 01 August 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 54mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2010
- : books
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- : 1328
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Brian W. Aldiss