The Real Story & Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Cycle 1 & 2 - Softcover

Donaldson, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575083344 ISBN 13: 9780575083349

Publisher: Gollancz, 2008

Synopsis

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 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 ...

About this title

Review:

‘The Gap series is the best work of his career. Donaldson displays a real and rare gift for depicting intrigue, deception, betrayal and the dynamics of the multiple double-cross, and the dizzyingly complex backstabbing arabesques of his cast of resourcefully vicious interstellar slimeballs make this series as funky, grungy and down-and-dirty as space-op ever gets. This sequence has me hanging by my thumbs waiting for the next instalment.’
Time Out

Book Description:

A powerful and intense sf tale from a master storyteller

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0575083344
• ISBN 13: 9780575083349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544