The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story / The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
by Stephen Donaldson
Gap Series (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 1-2)
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A powerful and intense sf tale from a master storyteller In the far future, gap drives faster-than-light deep space travel, but sometimes this afflicts some with irreparable brain damage. A Zone Implant can turn such a person into a zombie, to protect his shipmates, but it's highly illegal. Ensign Morn Hyland works for the United Mining Company, which is in charge of law enforcement throughout known space. She lives aboard a police ship, together with most of her family; their job is to show more chase down pirates and other illegals who prey on the weak, or smuggle goods into forbidden space. Her life is nothing out of the ordinary - until she falls in with the pirate Captain Nick Succorso. All of a sudden, the young, strong, beautiful police officer appears to be falling in love - well, lust at least - with the murdering pirate, or so it appears to the folk at the space station's bar. But the real story was quite different ... show lessTags
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reading_fox One is SF the other Fantasy, they may seem very different. But they're both epic in scope, both at the darker end of the human condition, and the writing style is similar. Both tell much larger stories than just the action of the 'hero'.
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- Canonical title
- The Real Story & Forbidden Knowledge; The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story / The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
- Original publication date
- The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story (1990) / The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge (1991) / Combined (2008) (1990 | 1991 | 2008)
- People/Characters
- Morn Hyland; Angus Thermopyle; Nick Succorso
- Dedication
- To my best editors:
Anne Lesley Groell
Jennifer Hershey
Susan Allison
Jo Fletcher
and
To Colin Baker:
Who knows how much good he's done me? - First words
- Most of the crowd at Mallorys Bar & Sleep over in Delta Sector had no idea what was really going on. (The real story)
Milos Taverner sighed, ran his hand back across his mottled scalp as if to verify that what remained of his hair was present, and lit another nic. (Forbidden knowledge) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Despite his horror of imprisonment, he was condemned to stay in lockup until he rotted. (The real story)
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then he took Angus out to the docks to join Milos Taverner and Min Donner aboard Trumpet. (Forbidden knowledge) - Disambiguation notice
- This book combines he first two novels in The Gap Cycle, previously published seperately.
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