Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss
The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. In fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilizations rise and fall as the planet orbits the giant sun Freyr every 3000 years. The trilogy won the J.W. Campbell Memorial Award.'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers' The Telegraph
Brian Aldiss, OBE, was a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. Born in Norfolk in 1925, after leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Passing away in 2017, over the course of his life Aldiss wrote nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories – becoming one of the pre-eminent science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006482239 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006482236 |
| Title | Helliconia Trilogy |
| Author | Brian Aldiss |
| Series | The Brian Aldiss Collection |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1996-07-22 |
| Number of pages | 1088 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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