β Scribed by Brian W. Aldiss
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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning 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 cycle of very long seasons. As spring slowly breaks the brutally long winter, humans emerge from hiding and a long sequence of civilization and growth begins to repeat again, unbeknownst to the participants but watched by an orbiting satellite station, Avernus, created by Earth some centuries ago. Humans free themselves from slavery to the aboriginal Phagors, and religion and science flower and expand. Brian W. Aldiss has, for more than fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. Helliconia Spring's prescience with regard to climate change is nothing short of extraordinary.;Map of Helliconia; Introduction To the E-Reads Edition; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Letter; Epigraph; Prelude -- Yuli; Embruddock; I -- Death of a Grandfather; II -- The Past That Was Like a Dream; III -- A Leap from the Tower; IV -- Favourable Temperature Gradients; V -- Double Sunset; VI -- "When I Were All Befuddock..."; VII -- A Cold Welcome for Phagors; VIII -- In Obsidian; IX -- In and Our of a Hoxney Skin; X -- Laintal Ay's Achievement; XI -- When Shay Tal Went; XII -- Lord of the Island; XIII -- View from a Half Roon; XIV -- Through the Eye of a Needle; XV -- The Stench of Burning; Epigrah; Letter
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**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
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
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
**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