Helliconia Trilogy [Hardcover]

Brian Wilson Aldiss (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Atheneum (May 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689115660
• ISBN-13: 978-0689115660
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,005,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a world I can almost live in, May 18, 2000

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Dave Luke (Cornwall, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Helliconia Trilogy (Hardcover)

Helliconia is a place I can almost SEE through the pages in my book. You begin to genuinely feel for the characters, as the storyline unfolds, we watch the main characters from above, often they lived hundreds of years apart: the Spring with makind living underground worshipping a mountain god & praying for the return of Freyr (the second sun) Summer & the emergence of Mankind's nations across the globe; the slow sink of mankind into barbarism in Winter as helliconia slides into another 500 year long freeze. The most complete & absorbing series of books I have ever read. It MUST return to print...please. A true classic to rival Tolkien and surpasses the Mars books by Kim Stanley Robinson

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book back in print!, February 8, 2000

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Ronald Bingham - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Helliconia Trilogy (Hardcover)

This series is a masterpiece. Buy it (if you can) and set aside enough time to read it. It's worth every minute. The 'plague' referred to in a previous review is the biological mechanism that allows the human inhabitants of the planet to survive the massive temperature extremes that occur over the 'year' (1000 earth years). The temperature ranges from sub-sub arctic to ultra-tropical and the physical changes as the people go from short fat and conservative Winter people to tall thin active Summer people are described with marvellous detail.

The story of the humans and their interaction with the natives of the planet is interwoven with the technical information with a masterful flair.

This series is similar in breadth and vision to the Eden series by Harry Harrison, so if you enjoy one, you will love the other.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top echelon of SF writing; Tour-de-force world-building, November 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Helliconia Trilogy (Hardcover)

One word keeps popping up in these reviews: CRIMINAL. That is, the fact that this is currently unavailable. This is a must-read for SF fans and a must-study for would be writers of SF but be forewarned: if you are of the second persuasion this will scare the words out of you, unless you are as gifted as this man (or very cocky). Read them all, read them in order for the delicious discovery, the slow-revealing of mysteries. Images from these stories will haunt you ever after.