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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.
The appendices were the only interesting part of the book.