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Helliconia Spring

The Helliconia Trilogy, Book 1

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Helliconia Spring

By: Brian Aldiss
Narrated by: Keval Shah
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This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy—a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream through this gigantic novel. Cosmic in scope, it keeps an eye lovingly on the humans involved. So the 5,000 inhabitants of the Earth's observation station above Helliconia keep their eyes trained on the events of Oldorando and may long to intervene though the dangers are too great. So we on Earth have them all in our vision in one of the most consuming and magnificent stories of scientific romance.

©1982 Brian Aldiss (P)2025 Tantor Media Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Space Opera Solar System
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An amazing construction of an ecology based on the astronomy of Helliconia’s system threaded with the story of the twin civilisations.

The greatest of all sci-fi epics

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The narrator completely spoils the book. Aldiss' grammar is great but, the narrator pauses in all of the wrong places and destroys the flow.

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