Another unrelated thing - turns out Julian May doesn't actually know Japanese.

[snarp]

I read the Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu books in middle school, and found it extremely impressive the way she had characters drop phrases in foreign languages into their dialog. (I was twelve.) I just reread the Galactic Milieu books, and I unfortunately am no longer very impressed.

And neither Fury nor Marc is actually at all scary. They don't make very good End Bosses.