Threshold

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Summary: Well worth searching for
Review: I first read this shortly after 'Emergence' and I loved every page. The characters are fun, exciting, a little sexy (where appropriate) and generally come over as the sort of people we would like to be (but rarely are) and associate with (but rarely have the opportunity to do). I've since reread it several times and am saddened to head that the Author may have passed away before finishing the series. If this is so. the authors memory surely deserves someone taking up where he left off (anyone think they're up to it?). Read and enjoy (if you can find it!). It's worth the search.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I loved this book! It was playful and serious at the same time (the hero has to stop the destruction of the universe as he knows it -- and has as much trouble believing that as you do). The hero will remind older readers of a slightly doofy version Kimball Kinnison (right down to the breeding program that produced him) but with a much better sense of humor. As he develops throughout this multiphase book, you like him more and more for his resourceful handling of what Palmer throws at him. I'm only sorry that Palmer has disappeared! What a loss to the SF world. His other novel, Emergence, was a real page turner as well. Please, Mr. Palmer, come out of retirement and finish this story!

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: I loved this book! It was playful and serious at the same time (the hero has to stop the destruction of the universe as he knows it -- and has as much trouble believing that as you do). The hero will remind older readers of a slightly doofy version Kimball Kinnison (right down to the breeding program that produced him) but with a much better sense of humor. As he develops throughout this multiphase book, you like him more and more for his resourceful handling of what Palmer throws at him. I'm only sorry that Palmer has disappeared! What a loss to the SF world. His other novel, Emergence, was a real page turner as well. Please, Mr. Palmer, come out of retirement and finish this story!

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Summary: Great read!
Review: I read this book years ago and continued looking for a sequel which never appeared. In spite of that problem, the story was presented in an excellent manner with great characters. If a sequel ever materializes, I will still be glad to read it.

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Summary: Great sci fi
Review: I've read and re-read this book and i still love it. It's gotten a little bit more wear and tear every year. Like the rest of the reviewers, I've tried to find the sequel to this and have so far been unsuccessful. BUT...I did get as far as finding a title for the presumable sequel...TO HALT ARMAGEDDON..if my memory serves me correctly...

Rating:
Summary: Great sci fi
Review: I've read and re-read this book and i still love it. It's gotten a little bit more wear and tear every year. Like the rest of the reviewers, I've tried to find the sequel to this and have so far been unsuccessful. BUT...I did get as far as finding a title for the presumable sequel...TO HALT ARMAGEDDON..if my memory serves me correctly...

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Summary: One of the 3 best books I feel privileged to have read.
Review: Mr.Palmers'first work in what was to be a trilogy is the single most promising "begining" I have read to date. In this journey of self discovery the author launches our "hero" on an incredible romp across a landscape so vast and so hostile that, at first you may think it insurmountable even in three books. The way the author guides us through this land with such humor and dogged intelligence is poetic genius. I laughed aloud with each turn of both page and event. And the smile on my face lasted for days. Excellent read. I search ceaselessly for the sequel "To halt Armaggedon".

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Summary: Science fiction at its best: fast, exciting and imaginative
Review: One of the few books I've read again and again. If you like FRIDAY by Heinlein, the early works by Piers Anthony, THIS IMMORTAL by Zelazny, and some other peaks of imaginative SF, you'll also get hooked by Palmer. But where's the sequel to THRESHOLD? Don't they recognize superlative SF when they see it. I always loved what Piers Anthony said about publishers. He's right. Does anybody know how to contact Mr. David R. Palmer? He should be urged most emphatically to quit his court job and go on writing and writing and writing ...

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Summary: Another look at the Lensmen series
Review: Theshold operates on a number of different levels (and does so very well).

On the surface, it is a very good adventure novel with a main character that is truely the best of the best.

It also stands as a good introduction to a series while not losing it's value as a stand alone book (which is a good thing since we may never see any further books in this series).

On a third level, it is a satire of the Lensman series. It took me a while to catch on but on a reread, the references were there almost from the beginning.

Finally, it continues Palmer's playing with narative style. In Emergence, he had most of the book written in a shorthand style that gave many of the scenes more impact. In Threshold, we are treated to the stream of conciousness of someone who has just had his world turned upside down. Again, that device works really well.

As for followups to this series, I had heard long ago that the second book was at the publisher but that it hadn't been published. As it's been over a decade, I don't have much hope of seeing it. That is truely regretable.

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Summary: available in your local dumpster
Review: this book was horrible; i loved 'Emergence' but didn't really like the whole parrot thing in that book - this book expands on the idea and creates a whole new world where everything is as stupid as can be. it's quick (too quick), witty (trying too hard), and the ending is just plain dumb.

i can understand why there's only one book in this 'trilogy', and thankfully it's out of print - be grateful!