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From: guy@slu70.UUCP (Guy M. Smith)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Helliconia Trilogy
Message-ID: <145@slu70.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 13:30:59 EST
Article-I.D.: slu70.145
Posted: Fri Jan 31 13:30:59 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 08:54:43 EST
References: <1902@cbsck.UUCP>
Organization: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
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Summary: readable but stiff

In article <1902@cbsck.UUCP>, trb@cbsck.UUCP (Tom Balent) writes:
> 
> 	Is there anyone out there who has read Brian Aldiss' 
> 	Helliconia Trilogy? If so, do you have any comments?
> 	
> 	Thanks in advance
> 				t r balent
> 				at&t-ns columbus

I've read all three. I find his writing a bit stiff and clumsy but readable.
There were also some loose ends that never were tied up. I'd put them in
the class of books that I enjoyed reading once but probably wouldn't reread.
On a scale of 1-10 (Gor series to Book of the New Sun) I'd give them a six
or seven.