Aldiss Brian » Helliconia Spring

This is the first volume of the a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today’s imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel. Cosmic in scope, it keeps an eye lovingly on the humans involved. So the 5,000 inhabitants of the Earth’s observation station above Helliconia keep their eyes trained on the events of Oldorando and may long to intervene though the dangers are too great. So we on Earth have them all in our vision in one of the most consuming and magnificent novels of scientific romance.Won BSFA Award for Best Novel in 1982.Won John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1983.Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1983.Note: British spelling.

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