title: Helliconia Spring (The Helliconia Trilogy)
author:  Brian W. Aldiss 
description: <DIV>Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published awardwinning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the threevolume Horatio Stubbs saga and the fourvolume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as <I>Report on Probability A</I> and <I>Barefoot in the Head</I>; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (<I>Billion Year Spree</I>, later revised and expanded as <I>Trillion Year Spree</I>). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was &ldquo;SuperToys Last All Summer Long,&rdquo; which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick&rsquo;s death by Steven Spielberg as <I>A.I. Artificial Intelligence</I>.&#160;Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92.&#160;</DIV>
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  HELLICONIA WINTER
  BRIAN ALDISS
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  Fitting ending, March 5, 1999
  Reviewer:
  Just as the series began with everything waking up with spring, so it ends with the
  world once again falling asleep for winter. Definitely ranking as one of the best
  series of all time, Aldiss finishes weaving his masterful plot, somehow making a
  book that is in the vein of the others and yet completely different. The matter of
  Earth is finally clarified and he ties in the destiny of us with Helliconia and shows
  that the two planets aren't all that different after all. Brilliant stuff and stuff that
  deserves wide reading, but as I keep saying, some publisher has let th