I just left you a note on Amazon – As a child of the 60’s and early 70’s, Branch Point sometimes gives me the heebie-jeebies. I remember crouching in the hallway in elementary school during our (totally impotent) Atomic Attack Drills.

I’m sorry to hear that Big Publishing has been an obstacle for you. I hope you ARE “having way too much fun” nowadays. Should you decide to write again, the Web is a great place to self-publish. We miss you!

Greg

I only wish she would write more!

Cheers

BC

And Judith could have walked off the set of any number of ‘military=evil’ movies, which is a shame. She started off quite interesting, and devolved as the book went along. But, I did like the good guys. Different strokes, I guess.

I honestly didn’t think the science in the book was that awful — at least, not from a geological standpoint. Sure, there were errors and exaggerations, but, in comparison to Clive Cussler + co’s Polar Shift, or James Rollins’ Deep Fathom, I thought Frank Schatzing sold the fictitious stuff relatively well. But, I hasten to add, I know next to nothing about marine biology.

I have not read Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio and Blood Music. I’ll give them a try next.

The writing is good enough though, although some of the characters (especially the norwegian scientist, and the cino-american general) are ‘too good to be true’, men (and women) with so many skills that they’d need three lives to gather them all. Plainly silly in some parts. Instead, the Inuit kiddo is kind of pussy-ish, and the whole team just doesn’t seem to work.

In an ideal world, we’d all have free access to an amazon.com warehouse, where we could read any and all of the books that took our fancy. I’d never sleep again! :-)

Thanks for the nice words about the header image — alas, it is the default image for this blog layout, created by Sadish, and is not one that I specially uploaded. That said, I love it too, which explains why it has not been changed. :-)