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Helliconia Spring: Brian Aldiss
Helliconia Spring: Brian Aldiss
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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. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. Yuli is a child of a hunter-gatherer family living under the light of two suns on the northern plains. When his father is enslaved by the vicious phagors, Yuli is left alone. He finds his way to the subterranean city of Pannoval, where he prospers as a member of the priesthood. Fifty years later, his descendants are prospering. Game is becoming more plentiful, the river is thawing and warmer winds are rising, even as the smaller sun, Freyr, grows larger in the sky. But with peace and plenty comes indolence and corruption...Life on Helliconia is observed from an orbiting Earth space station, the Avernus, the crew of which watch as Helliconia and its sun, Batalix, draw closer to the great white supergiant about which they revolve and the centuries-long winter comes to a violent end. Cover art by Tim Gill.
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Paperback; very faint spine crease; faint shelfwear; tightly bound and clean within, Sci-Fi/UFOShare
