Helliconia Winter
Helliconia Winter is a novel by Brian W. Aldiss published in 1985. Plot summary. "Helliconia Winter" is a novel in which the planet Helliconia's five-century winter has ended and its cyclical Renaissance begins as civilization recovers. Reception. Dave Langford reviewed "Helliconia Winter" for "White Dwarf" #67, and stated that "In "Winter", scenes on Earth and the orbiting Avernus Station (sketchy and less successful than the main narrative) offer two escape routes from cyclic history: enlightenment and extinction. All this and a gripping story too, of battle, murder and plague." Neil Gaiman reviewed "Helliconia Winter" for "Imagine  magazine, and stated that Rich and romantic, the story of the world of Helliconia where the seasons take two thousand years to turn, and humans and the horned and shaggy phagor are locked in continual struggle, is one that continues to echo through the mind long after the last page of the book is finished."