A review by snowbenton
Helliconia Spring by Brian W. Aldiss

2.0

Aldiss has a great ability to invent worlds and cultures, and a near-complete lack of ability to write characters. After a prelude that followed a young boy on a 1000-light-years-distant planet as he survived the loss of his father, made his way to a new town, became a priest, shed his priesthood, and founded a town, the story rapidly devolves into what feels like an anthropology textbook that someone has scribbled emotional parentheticals into.

The appendices were the only interesting part of the book.