Helliconia: "Hellonica Spring", "Helliconia Summer", "Helliconia Winter"

Author: Brian W. Aldiss

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  • : $39.99 AUD
  • : 9780575086159
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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  • : 01 August 2010
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 54mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 39.99
  • : 01 October 2010
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Description

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 & then die in the brutal winters. The inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.

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Aldiss is a pre-eminent figure in British SF who's reputation has extended into the literary world The Helliconia books (HELLICONIA SPRING, HELLICONIA SUMMER and HELLICONIA WINTER) are acknowledged as his masterpiece HELLICONIA SPRING won the John. W. Campbell Award Aldiss has also won the Hugo (twice), the Nebula, the BSFA, the James Blish and the Pilgrim Awards The books that set the standard for imagination and worldbuilding in SF

Author description

Brian Aldiss was born in 1925. He is a SF author who has achieved the rare success of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his novels he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), BILLION (later TRILLION) YEAR SPREE. He lives in Oxford.