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When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super- sensor expert for the only private agency in space – the Ares Corporation -- and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go.
The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres – and beyond, in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of radiation- bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on – for alien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything to get it – even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred million miles from home!
About the Author
Eric Flint is the author/creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, the most popular alternate history series today. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633, and 1634: The Baltic War, two novels in the Ring of Fire series, and on Crown of Slaves, a best of the year pick by Publishers Weekly, and its sequel, Torch of Freedom. Flint East Chicago , IL
Ryk E. Spoor, while earning his masters degree in
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4.2 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good read, Jun 6 2010
By M. Shepherd "Midwest" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Threshold (Hardcover)
Eric Flint has another very good novel on his hands. Not outstanding, but very good. Easily worth 4 stars. "Threshold" is the secondbook in the "Boundery" series. It would be a good stand alone novel, but it will be easier for you to get into the story if you read
"Boundery" first.
The basic story is not new, it`s been done several times before. Alien artifacts from a long ago visit have been discovered around
the solar system and the race is on to find more as well as to understand the aliens and their technology.
The book is an odd mixture of science fiction, hard science (with a few liberties taken), political cloak & dagger, adventure, and
humor. That sounds like a strange combination, but Flint & Spoor put it all together into a fun, enjoyable read that that keeps
you turning the pages.
The book is well written and the characters are fairly well developed. Maybe not as well developed as they could be, but as much
as you could hope for without the book being a lot longer and slowing the pace of the story.
They do take a few liberties with the science in the book, but far less than most sci-fi stories do. There is nothing in the book
that would make the average reader shut down their brain to accept story and plot points.
All in all it`s a very good book that you will enjoy reading.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book with an available ebook, Jun 22 2010
By T. L. Talley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Threshold (Hardcover)
I have really enjoyed this series, by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor. I like books that embrace history, archeology/paleontology and other sciences of history and move them into the future.This book takes the ancient history found in the first book Boundary and moves us forward with an exciting story mixing science and adventure.
What I love most is that I can also buy a DRM free ebook version of this direct from the publisher BAEN Books for only $6.00 no need for a kindle only version as it can easily be loaded into the kindle.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worthy sequel to Boundary, Feb 20 2011
By James Tepper - Published on Amazon.com
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"Threshold" is the sequel to "Boundary", taking place a few years after Boundary ends. It has the same cast of main characters that crash-landed on Mars in the opener, plus some new ones for our heroes to play against. The plot is pretty well described in the book jacket blurb or the Publisher's Weekly description on the Amazon page. A,J,, Helen, Maddie, Joe and Jackie still hold up well, and have their hands full in this very short (308 page) middle-of-a trilogy entry.Although I very much enjoyed the geeky tech specifics of space travel and the solution of problems that can and do arise during the journey (as I did in Boundary), those looking more for thrills, chills and novelty might be a little disappointed by the emphasis on the (well-done) SF tech and lack of substantial plot advancement with respect to the ultimate goal of the space mission.
I should also point out that unlike Boundary, which can easily be read as a satisfying stand-alone novel, Threshold is NOT self-contained and terminates abruptly in a cliff-hanger. Given its brevity and the nature of the "ending", I am all but certain that Threshold is actually the first half of a much longer novel that could have (and probably should have) been published as a single work. But Flint and Spoor have me hooked, so I'll spring for part 2 when it is published.
Last but not least, the cover is MUCH better than the cover to Boundary.
JMT
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