Helliconia Summer - Brian W. Aldiss [649]
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Praise
Also by Brian Aldiss
Map
Introduction by Graham Sleight
Preface by Brian Aldiss
Helliconia Spring
Prelude: Yuli
Embruddock
Chapter I: Death of a Grandfather
Chapter II: The Past That Was Like a Dream
Chapter III: A Leap from the Tower
Chapter IV: Favourable Temperature Gradients
Chapter V: Double Sunset
Chapter VI: ‘When I Were All Befuddock …’
Chapter VII: A Cold Welcome for Phagors
Chapter VIII: In Obsidian
Chapter IX: In and Out of a Hoxney Skin
Chapter X: Laintal Ay’s Achievement
Chapter XI: When Shay Tal Went
Chapter XII: Lord of the Island
Chapter XIII: View from a Half Roon
Chapter XIV: Through the Eye of a Needle
Chapter XV: The Stench of Burning
Helliconia Summer
Chapter I: The Seacoast of Borlien
Chapter II: Some Arrivals at the Palace
Chapter III: A Premature Divorce
Chapter IV: An Innovation in the Cosgatt
Chapter V: The Way of the Madis
Chapter VI: Diplomats Bearing Gifts
Chapter VII: The Queen Visits the Living and the Dead
Chapter VIII: In the Presence of Mythology
Chapter IX: Some Botheration for the Chancellor
Chapter X: Billy Changes Custody
Chapter XI: Journey to the Northern Continent
Chapter XII: The Downstream Passenger Trade
Chapter XIII: A Way to Better Weaponry
Chapter XIV: Where Flambreg Live
Chapter XV: The Captives of the Quarry
Chapter XVI: The Man who Mined a Glacier
Chapter XVII: Death-Flight
Chapter XVIII: Visitors from the Deep
Chapter XIX: Oldorando
Chapter XX: How Justice Was Done
Chapter XXI: The Slaying of Akhanaba
Helliconia Winter
Prelude
Chapter I: The Last Battle
Chapter II: A Silent Presence
Chapter III: The Restrictions of Persons in Abodes Act
Chapter IV: An Army Career
Chapter V: A Few More Regulations
Chapter VI: G4PBX / 4582–4–3
Chapter VII: The Yellow-Striped Fly
Chapter VIII: The Rape of the Mother
Chapter IX: A Quiet Day Ashore
Chapter X: ‘The Dead Never Talk Politics’
Chapter XI: Stern Discipline for Travellers
Chapter XII: Kakool on the Trail
Chapter XIII: ‘An Old Antagonism’
Chapter XIV: The Greatest Crime
Chapter XV: Inside the Wheel
Chapter XVI: A Fatal Innocence
Chapter XVII: Sunset
Appendices
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Acknowledgements
About the Author
SF Masterworks
Copyright