Helliconia
Sign in to saveThe 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 thousands of years as the planet progresses through its incredibly long seasons, which last for centuries.
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54 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- Earth
- Avernus
- Helliconia
- Astronomy
- Geography
- Language
- ''Olonets''
- ''Sibish''
- ''Ancipital''
- ''Hurdhu''
- ''hr'Madi'h''
- ''Language change over time''
- Technology
- ''Masters Corps''
- Biology
- ''Flora''
- ''Fauna''
- Phagors
- Humans
- Semi-humans
- ''Madis''
- ''Nondads''
- ''Ondods''
- ''"Others"''
- Virology
- ''The Helico Virus''
- ''Symptoms of the Helico Virus''
- ''Helico Virus in Spring: Bone Fever''
- ''Helico Virus in Autumn: Fat Death''
- ''Other notes''
- Religion & spirituality
- ''Akhanaba''
- ''Wutra''
- ''God the Azoiaxic & The Great Wheel of Kharnabhar''
- ''Magic''
- ''The Original Boulder/Beholder''
- ''Land-Octaves''
- ''Air-Octaves''
- Timekeeping
- Plot summaries
- ''Helliconia Spring''
- Prelude: Yuli
- Embruddock
- ''Helliconia Summer''
- King JandolAnganol
- Queen MyrdemInggala
- Prince RobaydayAnganol
- (Ex) Chancellor SartoriIrvrash
- Billy Xiao Pin
- ''Helliconia Winter''
- References and annotations
- Further reading
- External links
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 thousands of years as the planet progresses through its incredibly long seasons, which last for centuries.
On Helliconia, there are two main intelligent species humans and Phagors. The humans are similar to Earth humans, although they evolved independently. The Phagors are white-furred humanoid beings, roughly the size of humans but with horned features resembling the mythical minotaur. They are intelligent, with their own language and culture, but their civilisation has never advanced beyond a hunter-gatherer level. Since the evolution of humans on the planet, the two species have been in constant conflict, with the phagors dominant during the great winter and the humans dominant during the great summer. Orbiting around the planet is a massive space station of Earth humans, the Avernus, and many probes and other monitoring devices, sending information about Helliconia to Earth.