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Helliconia Summer (Panther Books) (Paperback)

by Brian Aldiss (Author)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Triad Books; New Ed edition (18 April 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586053662
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586053669
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 319,159 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first one!, 22 Jan 2005
By Jenni Mckinney "palacebooks" (Dacula, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Helliconia Summer (Paperback)
This is a tale of adventures of foreign people on a strange planet in outer space, but Aldiss paints his human characters with such intimacy and familiarity that the average reader cannot help but strongly relate. It's one of those books that doesn't come across as science fiction, even though it's replete with descriptions of a cyclical ecology that could theoretically work in real life.

Helliconia Summer is the second of a trilogy. The first book, Helliconia Spring, takes over half of its space describing the evolution of the planet and, consequently, the humans inhabiting it. The last fourth of the novel zooms in on one small but key town and follows the goings on of about 10 characters. Helliconia Summer opens in the same zoom on a new set of characters many centuries later, and follows them until the very end, where about 8 pages are zoomed back out to describe the evolution of the planet again.

Aldiss won the John W. Campbell Award in 1983 for Helliconia Spring, but to my surprise, has not won any awards that I know of for Helliconia Summer, which in my opinion is a far better book. I am hoping that the final book, Helliconia Winter, will be even better!

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