Series readers will be glad to see that this installment, which at last begins to resolve the overall plot, offers plenty of thrills and an exciting finish that will leave them eager for the fifth and final volume. The larger conflict between Warden Dios, head of the United Mining Companies police, and Holt Fasner, CEO of the powerful megacorporation, moves closer to its climax but the real excitement comes with the extended chase and battle in the asteroid swarm.
Aboard Trumpet are the survivors from the pirate ship Captain's Fancy, including Morn Hyland (the series' long-suffering heroine) and her erstwhile tormentor, Nick Succorso. There, Thermopyle, once a fearsome pirate, now a cyborg partially controlled by police programming, plans to have the secret ``antimutagen,'' which protects humans against the forced mutation practiced by the Amnion, replicated for mass distribution. 1 Here, Donaldson gave a loose retelling of Wagner 's Ring cycle. The series was originally published between 19 by Bantam Books and was reprinted by Gollancz in 2008 in the UK.
Donaldson, more usually known for his works of epic fantasy. Pursued by a police battle cruiser, by a bounty hunter and by a ship commanded by human agents of the dreaded Amnion, an alien race, Angus Thermopyle heads his ship, Trumpet, for an illegal lab hidden in a chaotic asteroid belt. The Gap Cycle is a series of science fiction novels by Stephen R. As the planetoid Thanatos Minor explodes into atoms, a specially-fitted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves forward like a juggernaut. Buy Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness by Stephen R Donaldson at Mighty Ape NZ. This fourth installment of Donaldson's Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there's no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted.
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