Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter
β Scribed by Brian W Aldiss
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1015 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
From a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another --and the humans trying to survive on it.
Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system--and the satellite from Earth secretly monitoring it. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Brian W. Aldiss then explores the social and religious divisions keeping the planet's population in conflict even as they're devastated by plague in Helliconia Summer , and concludes the trilogy with Helliconia Winter , which recounts both the threat of a looming, frigid age of decay and the hope of a new future.
The Helliconia Trilogy is both a riveting story and a thought-provoking examination of how our destinies are shaped by the environment around us. Aldiss's study of fields from astronomy to climatology to geobiology endow all three novels with...
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