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The Helliconia Trilogy - Brian Aldiss

 
Description: ISBN 0743445104 / Author: Brian Aldiss / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic ... more
The Helliconia Trilogy - Brian Aldiss ... 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.

Newest Review: ... the whole planet is snowbound for centuries. At the opposite extreme, the highpoint of summer turns the planet into a ... more

 ... scorhing furnace. The second difference to earth is that the planet is inhabited by humans and a second species - the Phagors, which are furry goat like creatures, who thrive in the cold. The effect of the climate is to set the history of the planet into a neverending cycle of rise and fall, dominance and enslavement. For example, during the darkest years of the great winter, human civilisation is all but wiped out and the Phagors enslave most of mankind. During the high summer this is reversed and the Phagors are docile sl...more

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Premium Review The Helliconia Trilogy - Brian Aldiss: A masterpiece (559 words)
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The Helliconia Trilogy of books by Brian Aldiss consists of Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer and Helliconia Winter. They are set on an earthlike planet, called Helliconia which differs from the earth in only two crucial respects. First instead of orbiting one star, Helliconia orbits two. It revolves around Batalix, its cold primary star once in a period slightly more than one earth year. Batalix in turn orbits around a second star, Freyr, which is a blue supergiant once every 1825 years. This orbit is highly elliptical, bringing Batalix and Helliconia close to Freyr for some of the orbit and very distant for other parts of it. Since Batalix is cool, when ...  Read the complete review

 

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