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Helliconia Spring

The Helliconia Trilogy, Book 1

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Helliconia Spring

By: Brian W. Aldiss
Narrated by: Keval Shah
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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and Science Fiction 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 listeners' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. Helliconia Spring's prescience with regard to climate change is nothing short of extraordinary.

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This is a fantastic epic from a bygone age. Aldiss' world of Helliconia is rich and well thought out. Themes of climate change and how external forcess affect the fortunes of individuals and nations are prescient and relatable. However, Aldiss' use of the English language is complex and the story is complicated. If you are looking for an easy read, move on. If you are looking for something that you will think about long after the book is finished, Helliconia Spring deserves your attention and is a must-read for fans of hard sci-fi.

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