Hello Summer, Goodbye

by Michael G. Coney

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A young man coming of age on a planet with a binary star deals with his own family issues, and in the process, confronts his race's fear of the cold and discovers the myth about the mysterious Lorin-creatures who share their world. Unbeknownst to all, their planet is about to be drawn into the orbit of Rax - where the long-dreaded freeze will begin. But when the planets two warring governments discover this impending threat and employ it to their own sinister advantage, young Drove retreats show more with his mother and father to the coastal city of Pallahaxi - where he learns the truth about his relationship with his father, the secret of the intuitive Lorin-creatures, and begins to understand his planet's peculiar destiny. show less

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thesmellofbooks Also published as Pallahaxi Tide, and Rax. Two wonderful science fiction novels with something of a feel of fantasy to them, yet the science is there. Brilliant.

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In 1975, Michael G. Coney seemed omnipresent; he had had nine novels published in the space of three years, and for four consecutive years Donald Wollheim had selected Coney's stories for his "World's Annual Best SF" series.

But as fast as Coney's star had risen, it faded; a 1980 short story again picked up by Wollheim, and a novelette that was a Nebula Award finalist in 1995, were the sole show more high-spots, and within a decade of the latter Coney's death was all but unremarked within the field. Thirty years after he won the BSFA Award for Brontomek, Coney is all but forgotten except by a few fans with long memories, and/or a taste for obscure British SF.

Hopefully that situation will now be rectified.
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Colin Harvey, Strange Horizons
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Aldiss, Brian W (Introduction)
Cap, Yoma (Translator)
Fischer, Janos (Illustrator)
Kirby, Josh (Cover artist)
Miller, Edward (Cover artist)
Ringer, Erhard (Illustrator)
Woodroffe, Patrick (Cover artist)

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Canonical title*
Der Sommer geht
Original title
Hello Summer, Goodbye
Alternate titles
Rax; Pallahaxi Tide
Original publication date
1975
Dedication
To Jane and Lady Margaret - and Keith Roberts, who also loves God's country...And to Daphne, who is Pallahaxi-Browneyes and doesn't know it.
First words
I often think of that day in Alika when my father, my mother and myself hurried to and fro, assembling a pile of possessions on the front porch in preparation for our holiday in Pallahaxi.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Presently the lorin came.
Original language*
Englisch
Disambiguation notice
Hello Summer, Goodbye in UK, aka. Rax in USA, aka Pallahaxi Tide in Canada
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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
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PZ4 .C748Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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