Small Paperback, Fair+ Condition, 1988, 559 pages, ISBN 0 586 05365 4

Helliconia Spring – Brian Aldiss

Part One of the epic Helliconia trilogy, stunning creation of another world by one of the century’s greatest masters of imaginative fiction.

‘The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. It revolves with three other planets round the star Batalix, the whole group revolving in turn in a giant ellipse round Freyr, fifteen times the size of our sun and 60,000 times as luminous…

In the fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilisations rise and fall with each three-millenia orbit of Freyr. The winter alone of that Great Year would last for some five centuries…’ - Brian Aldiss

“Brian Aldiss triumphs… possibly his finest so far…” – New Scientist

“A wonderful entertainment.” – New Statesman