Helliconia Spring

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author and Grand Master delivers a sweeping epic of a planet suffering deadly conditions of alternating extremes in this Nebula Award finalist Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons. As spring slowly breaks the brutally long winter; humans emerge from hiding and a long sequence of civilization and growth begins to repeat again; unbeknownst to the participants but watched by an orbiting satellite station; Avernus; created by Earth some centuries ago. Humans free themselves from slavery to the aboriginal Phagors; and religion and science flower and expand. Brian W. Aldiss has; for more than fifty years; continued to challenge readers' minds with literate; thought-provoking; and inventive fiction. Helliconia Spring's prescience with regard to climate change is nothing short of extraordinary.