Helliconia: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter

BOOK: Helliconia: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter
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‘Our ablest SF writer’

Guardian

‘Propels the reader headlong into marvel. A trilogy which has acquired monumental nobility’

The Times

‘Science fiction has never before had this grandeur’

Times Literary Supplement

‘Brian Aldiss’ towering imagination places his
Helliconia
trilogy far above standard science fiction’

Daily Mail

‘Rarely has someone else’s brave new world been brought so stunningly to life’

Daily Telegraph

‘One of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced’

Iain M. Banks

‘A marvellous journey to another world – a remarkable feat of the imagination’

John Fowles
Also by Brian Aldiss
 

NOVELS

 

The Brightfount Diaries (1955)

Non-Stop (1958)

Bow Down to Nul (1960)

The Primal Urge (1961)

The Male Response (1961)

Hothouse (1962)

The Dark Light Years (1964)

Greybeard (1964)

Earthworks (1965)

An Age (1967)

Report on Probability A (1968)

Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia (1969)

The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)

A Soldier Erect (1971)

Frankenstein Unbound (1973)

The Eighty Minute Hour: A Space Opera (1974)

The Malacia Tapestry (1976)

Brothers of the Head (1977)

A Rude Awakening (1978)

Enemies of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis (1978)

Moreau’s Other Island (1980)

Life in the West (1980)

Helliconia Spring (1982)

Helliconia Summer (1983)

Helliconia Winter (1985)

The Year Before Yesterday (1987)

Ruins (1987)

Forgotten Life (1988)

Dracula Unbound (1991)

Remembrance Day (1993)

Somewhere East of Life (1994)

White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free (with Roger Penrose) (1999)

Super-State (2002)

The Cretan Teat (2002)

Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (2004)

Sanity and the Lady (2005)

Jocasta (2006)

HARM (2007)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

 

Space/ Time and Nathaniel (Presciences) (1957)

No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)

The Canopy of Time (1959)

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1960)

The Airs of Earth (1963)

Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1965)

The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths (1966)

Intangible Inc. (1969)

The Moment of Eclipse (1970)

The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972)

Last Orders and Other Stories (1977)

New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)

Seasons in Flight (1984)

The Magic of the Past (1987)

Best SF Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1988)

Science Fiction Blues (1988)

A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories (1989)

A Tupelov Too Far (1994)

The Secret of This Book (1995)

Common Clay (1996)

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time (2001)

Cultural Breaks (2005)

NON FICTION

 

The Shape of Further Things (1970)

Billion Year Spree (1973)

Science Fiction Art (1975)

Science Fiction Art (1976)

Science Fiction as Science Fiction (1978)

The World and Nearer Ones (1979)

The Pale Shadow of Science (1985)

… And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986)

Trillion Year Spree (1986)

Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s: A Writing Life (1990)

The Detached Retina (1995)

The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998)

When the Feast is Finished (with Margaret Aldiss) (1999)

Art after Apogee: The Relationships between an Idea, a Story, a Painting (with Rosemary Phipps) (2000)

Helliconia
Helliconia Spring
Helliconia Summer
Helliconia Winter
BRIAN ALDISS
CONTENTS
 

Cover

Title

Praise

Also by Brian Aldiss

Map

Introduction
by Graham Sleight

Preface by Brian Aldiss

Helliconia Spring

Prelude: Yuli

Embruddock

Chapter I: Death of a Grandfather

Chapter II: The Past That Was Like a Dream

Chapter III: A Leap from the Tower

Chapter IV: Favourable Temperature Gradients

Chapter V: Double Sunset

Chapter VI: ‘When I Were All Befuddock …’

Chapter VII: A Cold Welcome for Phagors

Chapter VIII: In Obsidian

Chapter IX: In and Out of a Hoxney Skin

Chapter X: Laintal Ay’s Achievement

Chapter XI: When Shay Tal Went

Chapter XII: Lord of the Island

Chapter XIII: View from a Half Roon

Chapter XIV: Through the Eye of a Needle

Chapter XV: The Stench of Burning

Helliconia Summer

Chapter I: The Seacoast of Borlien

Chapter II: Some Arrivals at the Palace

Chapter III: A Premature Divorce

Chapter IV: An Innovation in the Cosgatt

Chapter V: The Way of the Madis

Chapter VI: Diplomats Bearing Gifts

Chapter VII: The Queen Visits the Living and the Dead

Chapter VIII: In the Presence of Mythology

Chapter IX: Some Botheration for the Chancellor

Chapter X: Billy Changes Custody

Chapter XI: Journey to the Northern Continent

Chapter XII: The Downstream Passenger Trade

Chapter XIII: A Way to Better Weaponry

Chapter XIV: Where Flambreg Live

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