Heliconium 1: Spring

When the generations-long winter finally ends...

On Heliconia, a planet orbiting binary suns, the Great Year lasts three thousand years of Earth time: Human civilization rises in the spring, flourishes during the summer season, and almost disappears with the onset of winter, which persists for many human generations. Spring is just arriving and Heliconia is slowly awakening from its long grip of frost. The tribes of the equatorial continent emerge from the shelters where they have survived the harsh climate, decimated to the minimum, and once again begin to vie for dominance over the planet with the ferocious creatures of the cold - the phagoras. And in one of his villages, Oldorand, reinventing the craft, Business, Agriculture, coins and new dimensions of interpersonal relationships.

The novel Heliconia - Spring is the opening volume of the great Heliconian Trilogy, a monumental saga that exceeds anything ever written by one of the greatest masters of the science fiction imagination.