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

[shana.livejournal.com]

They review about 6-8 mass market paperbacks each issue.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Millennia isn't absolutely wrong though people aren't used to very very large swaths of time. Eon might have been a better choice of words though in astronomical terms it implies billions. I can't think of a good word to use other than millennium. Epoch while it can cover enough time is more specifically a geologic time marker and eon would be a bit to long. So while millennia is way to short it implies the long scale at the very least.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Hey, excellent!

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Funny story happened earlier this week. Was in a B&N, checking out the new sf books and stressing that a lot [okay ... 4] of the authors I follow had hardbacks out. And I saw -1- copy of 'Threshold' on the shelf and pointed it out to my hubby, since he likes Flint's work and I've been trying to get him to read 'Boundary' & 'Threshold'.

[He was puzzled. I explained that Ryk E Spoor was Seawasp and then he noticed Flint's name there**. So I went on a 'gee, remember Usenet' thing and some -other- guy in the aisle grabs the book and says 'you know this guy?' and goes off to buy it. Completely bewildered me. It was like he was taking it so that I couldn't have it O_o]

** IMO your name is positioned in a much more eye-catching way on the cover.

[isleburroughs.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Cool! Congratulations!

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's awesome!

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?

[nerem.livejournal.com]

That was exactly it. I was just telling my friend how the tailwhip was Freeza's signature move in the games, and that plus the glanced past 'small, white, and purple' made me realize it in a flash.

I have to admit though, Orphan and related did remind me of Cell's first form to an extent, though I dunno if that was intended!

And I was left wondering if that thing that happened at that certain time was suppose to remind us of a certain green-eyed ability.

Yes, I'm so vague, but I know you'll understand.