The Helliconia trilogy is a series of science fiction books by British writer Brian W. Aldiss, set on the Earth-like planet Helliconia. It is an epic chronicling the rise and fall of a civilisation over more than a thousand years as the planet progresses through …

2021年7月15日 · There are nearly 200 species belonging to the genus Heliconia—many naturally occurring and others cultivated for vivid colors and shape.The tropical plants range greatly in height and color. Most are grown outdoors in tropical climates, while some varieties are grown and harvested by commercial growers for use by florists in flower arrangements.

2001年1月1日 · Helliconia - British author Brian Aldiss' superb creation, science fiction worldbuilding comparable to Frank Herbert's Dune, or, if you like, in the world of fantasy, comparable to J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. Helliconia Spring is the first volume in the trilogy; the second volume is Helliconia Summer and the third volume is Helliconia ...

The Girl Who Sang, a short story in Lands of Never, is set on Helliconia Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1), Helliconia Summer (Helliconia, #2), Hellicon...

2001年1月1日 · Helliconia Spring, the first of three novels in the cycle, tells the tale of a small human community as Spring comes to a world whose year lasts long enough for civilizations to rise and fall. It goes without saying that the main feature …

The Grand Master of Science Fiction’s “monumental” epic continues as Helliconia nears its larger star—and a strange visitor joins its civilization (The Times, London).

Helliconia has, in Shakespeare’s phrase, `a local habitation and a name.’ It is a world where you can be flung into prison for debt. For these reasons, and be cause of the strong sub theme of evolutionary progression, I have used H. G. Wells’s term and …

2017年8月23日 · 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. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter.