COF Recommends - Science Fiction by Brian Aldiss
Discover the best of Brian Aldiss with COF Recommends—a curated sci-fi reading list featuring Hothouse, the Helliconia trilogy, Greybeard, and more unforgettable classics.
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Helliconia Spring
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
In the first volume of this monumental trilogy, Brain Aldiss introduces readers to Helliconia, the chief planet in a binary system. Emerging from a centuries-long winter, the Helliconians ready themselves to fight the ferocious phagors who have taken over in their absence.
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Helliconia Summer
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
The second volume of the Helliconia Trilogy. It is the summer of the Great Year on Helliconia. The humans are involved with their own affairs. Their old enemies, the phagors, are comparatively docile at this time of year, yet they can afford to wait, to take advantage of human weakness--and of the king's weakness.
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Helliconia Winter
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northerncontinent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch's will is set against it-and against the phagors, humanity's ancientenemies, who carry the plague with them. This is the concluding volume of the Helliconia Trilogy-a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers.
