Re: equinox

At 12:45 PM 9/25/98 -0700, Matt Pearson wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> Pablo Flores wrote:
>> > It seems very similar to LeGuin's "Exile Planet", that I just
>> > commented, but it's different enough to presume you're talking about
>> > something else. Couldn't it be Robert Heinlein's "Double Star"?
>> > (I've not read it, I just remember the title).
>>
>> No.  The books are called Winter on _______ and Summer on _______ and
>> Spring on ________, where the blank is whatever the heck the planet is
>> called.  I don't remember.
>
>Ooh, ooh!  The author is Brian Aldiss.  I don't remember the name of
>the planet, though.  For some reason "Perelandra" and "Malafrena"
>keep circling around my head, but it isn't either of those.  Perelandra
>is from C.S. Lewis, isn't it?  And Malafrena?  Anyway, it's a name like
>that.  I haven't read the books, but I've seen them in bookstores...
>
>Matt.
>
It's Helliconia.  I haven't read that trilogy, either, but I probably will
someday; it was highly recommended by a friend whose tastes in SF are
generally similar to mine.

Heinlein's _Double Star_ is very good, arguably one of his best, but it has
nothing to do with any double star.  It's about an out-of-work actor who
gets hired to impersonate a kidnapped politician.  (The plot is sort of a
retelling of _The Prisoner of Zenda_.)
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