SQUEEE! Publisher's Weekly Review of Threshold -- and it's good!

[seawasp]

Either this is a late-emerging review, or I somehow missed it before.

EDIT: It seems to have vanished from that link, too. Are reviews over a week old no longer accessible without subscription?

It's not a long review, as you can see by the whole thing here, but it's nicely positive in tone and despite one "understatement to the point of almost wrong" (saying the Bemmie technology is  "millennia" old rather than 65 million years old), it's a good overview that isn't very spoilery at all. It includes  this excellent line:"This genial, fast-paced sci-fi espionage thriller is light in tone and hard on science and a fine choice for any collection."

I couldn't really hope for a better review from a real source, eh?

Wish I could've seen one for GCA, but I suspect they generally only do hardcovers.

Comments

I hope you write a GCA sequel anyways.

[nerem.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed it. Though I'm sure people have mentioned this, but one certain DBZ reference was more obvious, but the other, colder one was a lot more subtle. Am I right?

Re: I hope you write a GCA sequel anyways.

[seawasp]

Well, there are at least five DBZ refs I can think of in GCA, of which some are blatant, some are combo (i.e., they could be refs to something other than DBZ, too) and a couple are fairly subtle. I would say the... cooler one is fairly subtle, or at least obscure; you'd have to be good at constructing visuals in your head, AND your construction would have to track close to my own visualization when I wrote the description, for you to get it.

Re: I hope you write a GCA sequel anyways.

[nerem.livejournal.com]

I am very good at visualization and I was on the look out ever sense the blatant one showed up, so once the tailwhip came up, I was like "Hold on a second." and went back and read the description, and then compared it to my photographic memory for things like this.

And then I was like "EUREKA."

Re: I hope you write a GCA sequel anyways.

[nerem.livejournal.com]

Hold up. Is your avatar implying something.

Re: I hope you write a GCA sequel anyways.

[seawasp]

It could be implying many things. Sore wa... HIMITSU desu!

Re: I hope you write a GCA sequel anyways.

[seawasp]

Yes, if you've seen the right scene, or played the DBZ games, that tail-whip is utterly distinctive and will trigger your recall.