Title: Helliconia Summer

Title: Helliconia Summer Title Record # 1797
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1983-11-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Helliconia
Series Number: 2
Language: English
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Year	Title
1983	Helliconia Summer [as by Brian Aldiss]

Year	Language	Title
1983^ⓘTranslated by Annemarie van Ewijck	Dutch	Helliconia zomer [as by Brian Aldiss]
1985^ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm	German	Helliconia: Sommer
1986^ⓘTranslated by Jacques Chambon	French	Helliconia, l'été^?Helliconia, l'ete [as by Brian Aldiss]
1986	Italian	L'estate di Helliconia
1987^ⓘTranslated by Tauno Peltola	Finnish	Helliconian kesä
1995^ⓘTranslated by Mihaela Dumitrescu and Ștefan Dumitrașcu	Romanian	Helliconia — vara [as by Brian Aldiss]
2003	Portuguese	O Verão de Helliconia, 1º volume [as by Brian Aldiss]
2003	Portuguese	O Verão de Helliconia, 2º volume [as by Brian Aldiss]
2019^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Cristina%20and%20%26%23536%3Btefan%20Ghidoveanu&type=Name&mode=exact">Cristina and Ștefan Ghidoveanu</a> of ''Helliconia Summer''.	Romanian	Helliconia #2. Vara^?Helliconia #2. Vara [as by Brian Aldiss]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1983 SF Chronicle	Novel
Nomination	1983 BSFA	Best Novel
Nomination	1984 SF Chronicle	Novel
4	1984 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination (as Helliconia: Sommer)	1986 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bester ausländischer SF-Roman

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Helliconia Summer	1983-11-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Atheneum	0-689-11388-9	$16.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 398	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Gustave Moreau
Helliconia Summer	1984-01-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Atheneum / SFBC	3623	$6.98^?$: US dollar	viii+ 436	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Gustave Moreau
Helliconia Summer	1984-10-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Berkley Books	0-425-07368-8	$6.95^?$: US dollar	398	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Oliviero Berni
Helliconia Summer	1986-02-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Berkley Books	0-425-08650-X	$3.95^?$: US dollar	485	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Oliviero Berni
Helliconia Summer	1987-04-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Berkley Books	0-425-08650-X	$3.95^?$: US dollar	485	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Oliviero Berni
Helliconia Summer	1988-11-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Triad Panther / Granada	0-586-05366-2	£3.50^?£: UK pound	576	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tim Gill
Helliconia Summer	1988-11-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Ace Books	0-441-32632-3	$4.50^?$: US dollar	485	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Oliviero Berni
Helliconia Summer	1990-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Grafton	0-586-05366-2	£4.50^?£: UK pound	576	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tim Gill
Helliconia Summer	1992-11-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Collier / Macmillan (Collier Nucleus Science Fiction Classic)	0-02-016091-7	$10.00^?$: US dollar	398	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Neal McPheeters
Helliconia	1996-07-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-00-648223-6	£9.99^?£: UK pound	xi+ 361+ 398+ 281+ xxvi	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Peter Goodfellow
Helliconia Summer	2002-08-00	Brian W. Aldiss	ibooks	0-7434-4510-4	$14.00^?$: US dollar	398	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Robert Zohrab
Helliconia Summer	2012-10-03	Brian W. Aldiss	E-Reads	978-1-61756-764-3	$19.95^?$: US dollar	572	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Helliconia Summer	2014-04-01	Brian W. Aldiss	Open Road Integrated Media (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)	978-1-4976-0833-7	$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Helliconia Summer	2014-04-01	Brian W. Aldiss	Open Road Integrated Media (Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)	978-1-4976-0832-0	$4.99^?$: US dollar	572	ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Helliconia Trilogy	2016-10-25	Brian W. Aldiss	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-4137-9	$19.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni	Robert Zohrab

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Reviews

Review by Faren Miller (1983) in Locus, #272 September 1983
Review by David Langford [as by Dave Langford] (1984) in White Dwarf, February 1984
Review by Philip E. Smith, II (1984) in SF & Fantasy Review, March 1984
Review by Frank Catalano (1984) in Amazing Stories, July 1984
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1984) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1984
Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1984) in Science Fiction Review, Fall 1984
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1985) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #64 January 1985
Review by Peter Caracciolo (1985) in Foundation, #35 Winter 1985/1986, (1986)
Review [French] by Dominique Warfa (1986) in Fiction, #378
Review [German] by
Armin Möhle^?Armin Moehle
(2001) in Future Magic, Januar 2001