Helliconia
โ Scribed by Brian Aldiss
- Publisher
- Orion
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 907 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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 and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.
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Winner of two Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for more than fifty years, continued to challenge readers minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is
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