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Name: Helliconia Summer

Author: Brian Aldiss
Year: 1983
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Science fiction, Fantasy

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9780743445108
0743445104

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. A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven into exile, but conflicting religions and hostility to science keep human civilization fragmented and constantly fighting wars over petty power and fertile land as a plague devastates populations. However, everything changes when a secret visitor from the observer satellite from Earth accepts a slow death in order to visit the planet and spend his time in the sunlight and open air. 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.

This book is part of the "Helliconia" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Helliconia Winter"
First published in 1985
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"Helliconia Spring"
First published in 1982
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