The master of the “golden age” of world science fiction - and one of the few Englishmen who were “considered as one of their own” by American science fiction writers. A writer who dramatically changed his creative “style and style” THREE TIMES - from solid “traditional” science fiction to the “New Wave” , and after the “New Wave” “subsided” - back to tradition. Winner of a huge number of prizes and awards - from “Hugo” and “Nebula” to the Italian “Comet d'Argento” and the French “Jules Verne Prize”. Before you - one of Aldiss's best creations. A “space saga” comparable in scale, fascination and epicism only to Frank Herbert’s “Dune”. A saga about the planet Helliconia, on which each “great year” is the lifetime of hundreds of generations. About a planet whose sun turns again and again around a brighter star, bringing with each revolution radical changes in climate and ecology. This is a world written down to the smallest detail - from the art of war to diplomacy, from science to philosophy. Welcome to Helliconia!< /p>