Helliconia by Brian Aldiss
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 and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.
In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe and understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact.
Massive, thoroughly researched, minutely organised, full of action, pulp references and deep drama this is a classic trilogy.
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The Dispossessed
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Flowers For Algernon
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
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A Scanner Darkly
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The Word for World is Forest
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The Sirens Of Titan
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The Lathe Of Heaven
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Hyperion
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Ubik
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Revelation Space
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Ringworld
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The Forever War
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Roadside Picnic
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The City And The Stars
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The Stars My Destination
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The Fall of Hyperion
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The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1
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Star Maker
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
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Earth Abides
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Rendezvous With Rama
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Time Out Of Joint
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Valis
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Last And First Men
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The War of the Worlds
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The Difference Engine
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The Time Machine
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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Hard To Be A God
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Dune
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Minority Report
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Always Coming Home
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The Demolished Man
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The Gods Themselves
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The Fountains Of Paradise
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose
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The Female Man
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A Fire Upon the Deep
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The Invisible Man
Surprisingly engaging.. very much recommended. * SFF World *
Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He was a highly decorated science fiction author who achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning 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), Trillion Year Spree. He died in 2017 the day after his 92nd birthday.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780575086159 |
| ISBN 10 | 0575086157 |
| Title | Helliconia |
| Author | Brian Aldiss |
| Series | Sf Masterworks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2010-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 1328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |