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Hello Summer, Goodbye

Hello Summer, Goodbye

Pallahaxi: Book 1

Michael G. Coney

First published in 1975, Hello Summer, Goodbye is a minor classic of the SF field.

Set on a planet whose elliptical orbit creates intense summers and long, cold winters, it tells of the love between Drove and the girl Pallahaxi-Browneyes, whose affair is set against civil war and the dread approach of winter. It's also a brilliant depiction of an alien world, with bizarre tidal effects and even stranger native creatures. As Coney states in the Author's Note: "This is a love story, and a science-fiction story, and more besides." It's also a beautifully-written, lyrical adventure story with one of the finest closing lines in the genre.

I Remember Pallahaxi

I Remember Pallahaxi

Pallahaxi: Book 2

Michael G. Coney

Set hundreds of years after the events recounted in Hello Summer, Goodbye, this novel is a mystery story: a murder mystery on one level, and on another level, a mystery about the origins of the native aliens. It's also a critique of colonialism... for the human race has arrived on the alien homeworld, with fatal consequences. I Remember Pallhaxi not only continues but expands the story of life on a far-flung world where many things are familiar, but others are totally bizarre.

Before his death, Coney made this novel available for free online as a gift to readers.