Helliconia Spring (1982)

Others: Leaning negative

From the back cover: Imagine a world in a system of twin stars, where Winter is 600 ice-locked years and every Spring is the first remembered. Imagine a People finding ruined cities beneath the melting snows. Never dreaming they had built them. And would again...

ISBN:: 9780743444729
Length:: 361 pages

Genres: fantasy, science fiction

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