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The Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter Kindle Edition

by Brian W. Aldiss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
From a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another—and the humans trying to survive on it.
 
Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system—and the satellite from Earth secretly monitoring it. Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss then explores the social and religious divisions keeping the planet’s population in conflict even as they’re devastated by plague in Helliconia Summer, and concludes the trilogy with Helliconia Winter, which recounts both the threat of a looming, frigid age of decay and the hope of a new future.
 
The Helliconia Trilogy is both a riveting story and a thought-provoking examination of how our destinies are shaped by the environment around us. Aldiss’s study of fields from astronomy to climatology to geobiology endow all three novels with rich details of the planet Helliconia.
 
This riveting, century-spanning saga is a timely exploration of what climate change can mean for our own planet. “Brian Aldiss’s towering imagination places his Helliconia Trilogy far above standard science fiction” (Daily Mail).
 
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  1. Print length
    1638 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  4. Publication date
    October 25, 2016
  5. File size
    7.0 MB
  6. Page Flip
    Enabled
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About the Author

Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published award-winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three-volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four-volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,” which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick’s death by Steven Spielberg as A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92. 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01LZER9TS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (October 25, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7.0 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 1638 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 111 ratings

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Customers find the book well-written and imaginative, with one review highlighting its extensive planetary mechanics descriptions. They appreciate the philosophical content, with one noting its ecological and spiritual themes, and consider the price reasonable. The readability and story quality receive mixed reactions, with some finding it a great trilogy while others describe it as a slow read with almost irrelevant plots.

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8 customers mention "Pacing"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the pacing of the book engaging and imaginative, with one customer noting its great world-building.

"...spatial time inclusive language as needed, with great success and profound result. This epic series makes Winterfell look like Childsplay...." Read more

"Good concept and well written, but hard to follow narrative. Lots of different characters with little development. Slow read to connect the dots...." Read more

"Interesting and imaginative with the double Suns causing "ordinary" years and immensely long great years tens of generations for each season...." Read more

"Good writing coupled with fantastic ideas and stories - the kind of stuff that sticks with one for a lifetime!" Read more

7 customers mention "Writing quality"7 positive0 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, with one customer noting its extensively detailed descriptions and another highlighting the complex planetary mechanics explained in the appendices.

"...Takes the long view to the extreme. The author is a master vocabularian and Wordsmith, creating his own Geo-spatial time inclusive language as needed..." Read more

"The story set forth bit this author is very complex and keeps the reader on their toes. Though perhaps his style is difficult for some to follow...." Read more

"Good concept and well written, but hard to follow narrative. Lots of different characters with little development. Slow read to connect the dots...." Read more

"Complexity for it's own sake. When Tolkien or Tolstoy interweave multiple tales the search for connections is a fun challenge...." Read more

3 customers mention "Philosophical content"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the philosophical content of the book, with one review highlighting its ecological and spiritual themes, while another notes its exploration of intelligent life within a relativistic universe.

"Impregnated with Gaia theory and Spirituality. Takes the long view to the extreme...." Read more

"...of non-human (although humanoid in nature) intelligent life within this relativistic universe...." Read more

"...descriptions throughout all the novels, as well as lots of ecological/philosophical musing, particularly in the third novel...." Read more

3 customers mention "Value for money"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the book offers good value for money.

"...Decided to reread and I rarely hold paper books and price was right. Thus I went for the e-book." Read more

"Great world-building in this trilogy. The price is definitely right for three such excellent books. Any SF fan should enjoy iy." Read more

"Enjoyed reading. Certaily a value!" Read more

11 customers mention "Story quality"7 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the story quality of the trilogy, with some finding the individual stories okay, while one customer describes it as well-written and believable.

"...Authors like this amaze me, the story is jam packed with imagery and personalities and cultures and histories of places and peoples, I simply can't..." Read more

"Good writing coupled with fantastic ideas and stories - the kind of stuff that sticks with one for a lifetime!" Read more

"Good concept and well written, but hard to follow narrative. Lots of different characters with little development. Slow read to connect the dots...." Read more

"...The novels were ok...." Read more

8 customers mention "Readability"5 positive3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's readability, with some finding it a great trilogy while others note it's a slow read.

"...The price is definitely right for three such excellent books. Any SF fan should enjoy iy." Read more

"...Lots of different characters with little development. Slow read to connect the dots...." Read more

"Great trilogy. Read them many years ago and glad to have them now in Kindle format." Read more

"Enjoyed reading. Certaily a value!" Read more

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  • jerri-anne mcdermith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Immersive, In-depth, Imaginative, Impressive in scope
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020
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    Impregnated with Gaia theory and Spirituality. Takes the long view to the extreme. The author is a master vocabularian and Wordsmith, creating his own Geo-spatial time inclusive language as needed, with great success and profound result.
    This epic series makes Winterfell look like Childsplay. What an astounding screenplay this would make, though not really needed as the beauty and imaging is all there in the writing.
    Highly recommended hard sci-fi
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  • ATXMomma
    4.0 out of 5 stars masterful writer
    Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017
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    The story set forth bit this author is very complex and keeps the reader on their toes. Though perhaps his style is difficult for some to follow. He honestly jumps perspectives and tenses quite frequently, which draws more heavily on the mind of the reader. I do agree with some other reviewers that it is difficult to keep with this series when the author tends to leap far ahead through the years and discontinue characters just when you're really getting to know them. I understand why this is done though - the entire premise of the story is about a cycle that takes centuries to complete, so we never would get to the end without these leaps.

    Overall, even though I disagree slightly with some of this author's story telling techniques, I can see why they call him a grand master of Sci Fi - and look forward to reading more of his stuff!
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  • Kindle Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as I rembered from years ago.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2018
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    Good concept and well written, but hard to follow narrative. Lots of different characters with little development. Slow read to connect the dots. I read these three books when they were originally published when I was a lot younger and hopefully sharper. Did not like them then very much as I recall. Still do not.
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  • Vicki W.
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's beautifully written and very memorable!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018
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    Well, this book took awhile to get thru, I will admit. I would stop and do some other reading, always returning to this beautiful story. Authors like this amaze me, the story is jam packed with imagery and personalities and cultures and histories of places and peoples, I simply can't understand how all this comes out of someone's (very fertile) imagination. I am not usually a fan of the sweeping timeline style of story, where centuries are covered, but this is an exception. It is a really beautifully written book whose extraordinary imagery will always be with me.
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  • RJL54
    2.0 out of 5 stars Stay away.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2017
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    Lost interest very early in the series. Lame.
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  • Wolfgang.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Eh....?
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2023
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    Complexity for it's own sake. When Tolkien or Tolstoy interweave multiple tales the search for connections is a fun challenge. This was not worth the effort. Sorry
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars ... the double Suns causing "ordinary" years and immensely long great years tens of generations for each season
    Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017
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    Interesting and imaginative with the double Suns causing "ordinary" years and immensely long great years tens of generations for each season. I am hoping for more as Aldiss has much more he could develop,
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  • Tarazed
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good writing coupled with fantastic ideas and stories - the ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2017
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    Good writing coupled with fantastic ideas and stories - the kind of stuff that sticks with one for a lifetime!
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