Helliconia Winter (The Helliconia Trilogy, Book 3)

Rating:
Summary: Fitting ending
Review: Just as the series began with everything waking up with spring, so it ends with the world once again falling asleep for winter. Definitely ranking as one of the best series of all time, Aldiss finishes weaving his masterful plot, somehow making a book that is in the vein of the others and yet completely different. The matter of Earth is finally clarified and he ties in the destiny of us with Helliconia and shows that the two planets aren't all that different after all. Brilliant stuff and stuff that deserves wide reading, but as I keep saying, some publisher has let this series go out of print. Criminal, I tell you. Someone get this series into the right hands where it belongs! A classic.

Rating:
Summary: Fitting ending
Review: Just as the series began with everything waking up with spring, so it ends with the world once again falling asleep for winter. Definitely ranking as one of the best series of all time, Aldiss finishes weaving his masterful plot, somehow making a book that is in the vein of the others and yet completely different. The matter of Earth is finally clarified and he ties in the destiny of us with Helliconia and shows that the two planets aren't all that different after all. Brilliant stuff and stuff that deserves wide reading, but as I keep saying, some publisher has let this series go out of print. Criminal, I tell you. Someone get this series into the right hands where it belongs! A classic.

Rating:
Summary: slow and pointless
Review: The planet Helliconia is a world where the seasons are thousands of years long, and the whole story beginns in the winter, where we follow Yuli and his descendants in a L O N G historical epic. The complete works with Helliconia spring and Helliconia summer contains (I think) more than a thousand pages, but I've only finished the winter and half the spring part. It seems to me that the whole thing lacks any meaning at all. The only thing that happens is that generation after generation is born and dies, and that the seasons are changing (oh, I forgot the neverending war whith the other intelligent race, whose name i've forgot). I'm sure that this is a very well written epic, but I found it a bit hard to motivate more than thousand pages of reading, when I wasn't sure there would be any real ending. Forgive me, Brian, for not reading all of it (I thought it was very well written). Perhaps it had an ending after all?