false 22877 7 Remember how the fairy-tale-ish <I>The Hobbit</I> morphed into a wide-lens <I>The Lord of the Rings</I>? Plots, counterplots, and intrigue galore await readers of the Gap saga, which is still picking up speed. Allusions to Wagner's <I>The Ring Cycle</I> in opening book <I>The Real Story</I>'s afterword now become clear as Earth politicians, Holt "Dragon" Fasner, and the rest of the United Mining Company Police bureaucrats enter the fray. Morn and company still teeter between exhilaration and desperation.... even readers who don't care for action or space opera may enjoy a story with this forceful a meld of character, cabal, and adventure. 23881 1992 The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises (Gap #3) total:530|5:195|4:186|3:118|2:21|1:10| 530 2125 683 11 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 03:44:08 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 03:49:38 -0700 2009
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I think Donaldson does better with SF than fantasy. The series is set in a future as created by something called the Gap Drive, an FTL travel method that sometimes drives people mad. It starts out with a compl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Jun 09 23:40:30 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 20:02:23 -0700 2007
My father handed me the first one, saying, "This is full of violence and rape and you'll probably hate all the characters in this first book, but the story just keeps getting better."

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