Threshold

by David R. Palmer

Book Overview

All-around gold-metal-winning Olympic athlete, world-class pilot, race driver, and hugely successful financial genius, Peter Cory had every reason to be content with life and satisfied with himself.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553248782
• ISBN13: 9780553248784
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another look at the Lensmen series

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.

Great sci fi

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...

Threshold

A Mind-Blowingly good read. A writer this good comes along very rarely. This guy is easily the equal of Terry Pratchett. He makes you feel like your experiencing the story close-up. It is a great blow to science fiction that has apparrently written "only" the two books.PS: His books are impossible to find copies of here in Australia, I had to get my copy of Threshold over the net from the US. (Total cost A$17.40)including postal chargesStill haven't got a copy of Emergence, Have to read mum's copy.

An excellent book, but was it the last?

Threshold is one of those books that you just can't stop reading. By that I mean at least once a year for the last 10 years. David Palmers novel Emergence was excellent, however, its plot & story lead to a limited set of readers, Threshold I felt appealed to a larger number of readers, as it has elements of fantasy, science fiction & a little of the occult with its deliberatly mis-spelled references to witches, wards, familiars, etc. Unfortunatley, there are no sequels to this book, as I have heard (but not confirmed) that the author passed away before completing the 2nd & 3rd books. If it's true, the genre has lost a truly gifted author and I for one will keep on re-reading his material for years to come.

One of the 3 best books I feel privileged to have read.

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".