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I finished my first book of 2017: Helliconia Summer by Brian W Aldiss. This is the second book in the Helliconia trilogy, about a planet with very wide variations in climate over a couple of thousand years. I read the first one a couple of months ago, and I'll need to read the third soon. I need them for my chronological SF challenge, and also for my BSFA winners challenge, although this middle episode was a runner-up.
I quite enjoy them, but they seem like hard work. They're SF that reads a lot like fantasy, with low-tech societies, and kings and queens, and even a hint of the fantastical, but the tone is not like modern fantasy. There's a lot of digression, some info dumping, and a fair amount of melodramatic passion. Odd, but enjoyable.
Next up is Bernard Cornwell's The Bloody Ground, I think. One of the books I was hoping to fit in last year and didn't manage to. This the fourth, and currently last, of his US civil war series. I'm sort of glad I'm not too spoilered by knowing the actual history.
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