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

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 ...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Donaldson, Donaldson Stephen
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781473225527
• ISBN: 978-1-4732-2552-7
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Series: The Gap Cycle
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Science Fiction / Alien Contact