Heliconia Primavera/Helliconia Spring
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
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Author: Brian Wilson AldissEdition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Published: 1986-02
ISBN: 8445070541
Publisher: Minotauro
Book Reviews of Heliconia Primavera/Helliconia Spring
Book Review: Disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
The prose of Aldiss is cultured and enjoyable. He can narrate. He has rhythm.
But I could not bring myself to like the idea of being told the saga of "a planet", as opposed to a story with recognizable central characters, or a lineage.
The author, after having spent considerable effort (and our time) building the character, telling us part of his story in a meticulous, intimate fashion, suddenly skips several generations and goes on starting from scratch in a totally different setting, and brand new characters.
If the value of the book resides in such "originality", I could really not appreciate it. Rather, one feels cheated. It is not the story of a planet narrated in broad epic, or even geological terms. Rather, a disconnected sequence of truncated narrations at a personal interaction level.
And there isn't even the consolation of these stories being whole and unitary enough to be enjoyed as independent pieces.
After the first of these "disconnections", I could not continue reading the book.
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