**The Hugo and Nebula Awardβwinning author and Science Fiction Grand Master delivers a sweeping epic of a planet suffering deadly conditions of alternating extremes in this Nebula Award finalist** Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cyc
Helliconia Spring
β Scribed by Brian Aldiss
- Publisher
- E-Reads
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 384 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. Now, E-Reads is proud to make available in eBook format the classic works of Aldiss. Now with a New Introduction by the Author! HELLICONIA SPRING Book One of the Helliconia Trilogy 2012 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the original publication of HELLICONIA SPRING, the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy, and E-Reads celebrates that anniversary with a brand-new re-publication of the entire trilogy, complete with map and afterward material compiled for a follow-up release of the whole series. Helliconia is a world in a very eccentric orbit about its home star which results in a very, very long "year" orbit around the central sun. After long decades of frozen winter...
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A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. The tribes of the equatorial continent em
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**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