Helliconia Summer

Helliconia lies roughly a thousand light years from Earth. Its years are shaped by two suns, and its seasons stretch across so many generations that each person is born into, lives through, and dies within a single season, never witnessing any other.

The cold Sibornal winds give way to a season of fire. Forests erupt in flame, and the realms built by people and their rivals are reduced to ash. This cycle returns only once every 2,500 years, and the planet's inhabitants now find that summer has come round again.

This second volume of the Helliconia trilogy, which follows Helliconia Spring, focuses on that long summer and the upheaval it brings to a world that has forgotten it.