Helliconia Winter

by Brian W. Aldiss

Book Overview

From Hugo and Nebula Award winner Brian W. Aldiss comes the third book of the internationally bestselling Helliconia trilogy. A fitting culmination, not only for the trilogy . . ., but for Aldiss'... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0586053670
• ISBN13: 9780586053676
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A genuine classic

This is a proper literary novel for grown-ups. The prose is beautiful, the characters memorable and nuanced, and the portrait of the cultures of Sibornal convincing and rich. Really, it's astounding that the Helliconia trilogy is not held in higher regard. It is one of the very best things that's ever come out of science fiction. The best book in the series is probably Summer, but this is a close second. My main gripe is that I wish it had been longer. Abro hakmo astab to all detractors!

Fitting ending

Just as the series began with everything waking up with spring, so it ends with the world once again falling asleep for winter. Definitely ranking as one of the best series of all time, Aldiss finishes weaving his masterful plot, somehow making a book that is in the vein of the others and yet completely different. The matter of Earth is finally clarified and he ties in the destiny of us with Helliconia and shows that the two planets aren't all that different after all. Brilliant stuff and stuff that deserves wide reading, but as I keep saying, some publisher has let this series go out of print. Criminal, I tell you. Someone get this series into the right hands where it belongs! A classic.