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.
Angus Thermopyle, ein gefürchteter Raumpirat, zwingt die Astro-Polizistin Morn Hyland durch eine Elektrode zu Gehorsam und missbraucht sie. Ihre einzige Hoffnung liegt in Nick Succorsos, einer zwielichtigen Figur. Morn versucht, die beiden Rivalen gegeneinander auszuspielen, doch das Schicksal nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung.
Author of The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson retums with the second book in his long-awaited new science fiction series--a story about dark passions, perilous alliances, and dubious heroism set in a stunningly imagined future. Beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous, Morn Hyland is an ex-police officer for the United Mining Companies--and the target of two ruthless, powerful men. One is the charismatic ore-pirate Nick Succorso, who sees Morn as booty wrested from his vicious rival, Angus Thermopyle. thermopyle once made the mistake of underestimating Morn and now he's about to pay the ultimate price. Both men think they can possess her, but Morn is no one's trophy--and no one's pawn. Meanwhile, withing the borders of Forbidden Space, wait the Amnioin, an alien race capable of horrific atrocities. The Amnion want something unspeakable from humanity--and they will go to unthinkable lengths to get it. In Forbidden Knowledge, Stephen R. Donaldson spins a galaxy-wide web of intrigue, deception, and betrayal that tightens with inexorable strength around characters and readers alike.
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.
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...
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...
Pursuing the pirate ship Soar and her infamous captain Sorus Chatelaine, the battleworn crew of the Trumpet places its hopes in cyborg Angus Thermopyle, who is working against his will
A powerful and intense sf tale from a master storyteller