โ Scribed by Brian W. Aldiss
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Map of Helliconia; Introduction to the E-Reads Edition; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Letter; Epigraph; Prelude; I -- The Last Battle; II -- A Silent Presence; III -- The Restrictions of Persons in Abodes Act; IV -- An Army Career; V -- A Few More Regulations; VI -- G4PBX/4582-4-3; VII -- The Yellow-Striped Fly; VIII -- The Rape of the Mother; IX -- A Quiet Day Ashore; X -- "The Dead Never Talk Politics"; XI -- Stern Discipline for Travellers; XII -- Kakool on the Trail; XIII -- "An Old Antagonism"; XIV -- The Greatest Crime; XV -- Inside the Wheel; XVI -- A Fatal Innocence; XVII -- Sunset; Epigraph; Letter;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. After many centuries, the flowering of human civilization has begun to dwindle again and the Great Year slowly progresses while the long, deadly cold winter looms--but a break in the long, repeating cycles of growth and decay may result from the long-ago visit of the Earthman. New legends of the spring and summer have evolved and a new future may be aborning. More than thirty years after the original publication of Helliconia Spring, the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy, the series is newly available, now with a map, an afterword, and an introduction by the author.
Life on other planets -- Fiction
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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. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking
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. After many centuries, the flowering of
**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 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