num_pages: 400
description: A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth 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. The tribes of the equatorial continent emerge from their hiding places and are again able to dispute possession of the planet with the ferocious phagors. In Oldorando, love, trade and coinage are being redisovered, This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers.
language: English
title: Helliconia Spring
titlecomplete: Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1)
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Epic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, British Literature, Science Fiction, Collections, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 4061
series: Helliconia
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Nebula Award, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Foreign Novel, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: UNKNO