The Gap Into Conflict - 1: The Real Story
- 241 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Science fiction roman.
The Gap Cycle Series
This series plunges you into a dark and unforgiving future, where brutal space pirates, oppressed victims, and unlikely saviors collide. The narratives explore complex relationships and a gradual role reversal between characters forced to survive in harsh mining colonies and interstellar conflicts. Experience thrilling suspense, betrayal, and unexpected twists in an epic science fiction saga.
Recommended Reading Order
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Morn Hyland leert op het ruimteschip van Nick Succorso de wereld van een geheel andere kant kennen: er is corruptie tot in de top van de politiemacht en er zijn clandestiene contacten met de vreemde Amnion in de Verboden Ruimte, waar kanker en mutaties de ruimtevaarders bedreigen. Morn moet op het piratenschip vechten voor haar bestaan, voor de beheersing over haar geest en voor het kind dat ze bij zich draagt. En ze vecht met - letterlijk - alle middelen. Ze wordt diep vernederd, maar komt tot ongelooflijke prestaties wanneer de aandrijving van het schip beschadigd blijkt en er een virus in de computer woedt...
- 3
Mistrz opowieści, Stephen R. Donaldson, zyskał światową sławę dzięki niezapomnianemu cyklowi fantasy „Kroniki Thomasa Covenanta”. Potem, dzięki książkom Prawdziwa historia i Zakazana wiedza, rozpoczął nową porywającą serię science fiction. Teraz podejmuje tę epicką opowieść - w której ludzkość staje przeciwko siłom absolutnego zła i mrocznym stronom własnej natury... W sercu ZKG trwają tytaniczne zmagania pomiędzy Wardenem Diosem, dyrektorem, który jest oddany korporacji, a Smokiem, będącym jej chciwym władcą. To nie tu zdecydują się losy Morny Hyland oraz całej ludzkości. Miejscem, w którym dojdzie do ostatecznego rozstrzygnięcia, będzie Fakturama - nielegalna stocznia, przystań piratów i przestępców, leżąca na granicy obcych terytoriów Amnionu.
- 3
The third instalment in the GAP Stephen Donaldson's fascinating universe peopled with characters of a passion and intensity only he could create. After a terrifying encounter with the Amnion aliens, Nick Succorso made for the safety of Thanatos Minor, the infamous bootleg shipyard where illegals from all over the galaxy come to repair their ships (and indulge their exotic tastes in entertainment). But the Amnion are waiting, and for Nick, Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, the safe haven has turned into a vision of hell. Now Angus Thermopyle heads for Thanatos Minor, programmed to carry out a secret mission that could have nightmarish consequences for them all...
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A new-cover reissue of the fourth book in the bestselling five-volume sf series created by the world-famous author of the Thomas Covenant chronicles -- and acclaimed as the 'best work of his career'. Events were not moving as the Amnion had intended. Once again humans had been false in their dealings with the aliens. As the planetoid Thanatos Minor exploded into atoms, the Trumpet hurtled into space only one step ahead of hostile pursuers. On board were Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, cyborg Angus Thermopyle and Captain Nick Succorso -- old enemies thrown together in a desperate bid for survival. For both the Amnion and the UMCP, the immediate capture of the fleeing ship and the secrets it contained was imperative. But for Trumpet's exhausted crew the only hope lay in an illegal lab in the distant binary solar system of Valdor Industrial. It would be a journey of unpredictable danger -- from which not all would return...
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A new-cover reissue of the fifth and final book in the bestselling sf series created by the world-famous author of the Thomas Covenant chronicles -- and acclaimed as the 'best work of his career'. One of the most exhilarating space epics ever told comes to a shattering climax in a thrilling tale of high adventure, powerful emotion and labyrinthine intrigue. As the conflict between humankind and the Amnion aliens heads for crisis, Morn Hyland, cyborg Angus Thermopyle and the survivors on board the crippled starship Trumpet must return from deep space to Earth. Only they can prevent the titanic struggle between UMCP director Warden Dios and Holt Fasner, the corrupt head of the UMC, from precipitating all-out war with the Amnion -- and leaving humanity to pay a terrible price. As Dios in Earth's orbit and Morn in deep space both make far-reaching decisions, the Amnion act with swift fury, and suddenly Earth stands threatened with fiery destruction!
A powerful and intense sf tale from a master storyteller