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The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die (Gap #5)
From the bestselling author of "Chaos and Order" comes the conclusion of the "Gap" series. As the crew attempts to pursue the pirate ship "Soar" and her captain, their hopes turn to Angus Thermopyle. Angus, Morn Hyland, and her son, Davies, race home, unaware that Warden Dios and The Dragon are locked in a final confrontation that may alter th...more
Mass Market Paperback, 688 pages
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December 9th 2009
by Spectra
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Stephen Donaldson's "Gap" series is one my favorite series.
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."
He was right. The story begins with a space pirate attack on a police ship and the "rescue" of the last survivor on the police ship and concludes with the human race fighting the Amnion, an alien species...more
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."
He was right. The story begins with a space pirate attack on a police ship and the "rescue" of the last survivor on the police ship and concludes with the human race fighting the Amnion, an alien species...more
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A wonderful, gripping and devastating finish to this series. Despite Angus being the biggest badass in the history of SF (especially in the first book), you can't help cheering him on in this one.
I have to admit to feeling very emotional at the end of the story. Warden Dios's message to Morn was a fitting ending to this emotional rollercoaster of a series. His ultimate sacrifice was worthwhile to ensure that all was set right but devastating in the same way that Covenant's loss was...more
I have to admit to feeling very emotional at the end of the story. Warden Dios's message to Morn was a fitting ending to this emotional rollercoaster of a series. His ultimate sacrifice was worthwhile to ensure that all was set right but devastating in the same way that Covenant's loss was...more
The Gap series is something that only Stephen R. Donaldson could write. Most of the characters have redeeming virtues. Twists and turns recasting the Hero as the Villain, the Villain as the Slave, the Slave as the Hero. In this book we learn why these people have been tormented by themselves and others through the last 4 books.
We see higher level political implications of the plights of the characters. The higher level ramifications are both more and less satisfying than the clos...more
We see higher level political implications of the plights of the characters. The higher level ramifications are both more and less satisfying than the clos...more
I've just re-read The Gap Series (I'm lending them to a friend) and I am still in love with this sequence of books. As usual, Donaldson puts his characters through the wringer, every action has a consequence and the decisions made are always too expensive. He makes heroes out of seemingly ordinary people, the line between good and bad is always a blur and he'll even make you see hope in the most terrible of situations.
It's also a very believable future story, as much as I desire The Culture, I t...more
It's also a very believable future story, as much as I desire The Culture, I t...more
I'm only going to say this once for all 5 books: they are a stellar sci-fi series that any genre addict should read. They are not as great as the first trio of Covenant books, but they are a lot better than some of the recent sci-fi books churned out. That said, they are also more than a little disturbing, and, by the end, more than a little hard to believe. Even sci-fi character can't bend so far until they break, and the main villain of this "franchise" does such a personality 180 ...more
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Describe any Donaldson novel/series in a paragraph. I dare you. I'm not going to review each book; it was too long ago that I read them. However: If you like your sci-fi straight up, no water or ice, this series will satisfy like 21-year-old Glenlivet single-malt.
Donaldson is an opera enthusiast, Wagner a particular favorite, and the Ring cycle is the inspiration for the story in this five-book series. As usual, the story hasn't been culled from other sci-fi and hasn't been imitate...more
Donaldson is an opera enthusiast, Wagner a particular favorite, and the Ring cycle is the inspiration for the story in this five-book series. As usual, the story hasn't been culled from other sci-fi and hasn't been imitate...more
I read "The Gap" series, a five-novel saga from Stephen R. Donaldson.
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 complicated little minuet of a story involving the lives of three people who live on the fringes of space (the first novel), but over time the series becomes a complicated tale involving a terrible cold wa...more
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 complicated little minuet of a story involving the lives of three people who live on the fringes of space (the first novel), but over time the series becomes a complicated tale involving a terrible cold wa...more
It took me a hundred pages or so to get into this, because the plot is so intricate and I had forgotten much of the previous four installments in the series. The tension peaks at about page 250 and somehow the author maintains that tension and interest until the end (600+ pages). Amazing. This is NOT light reading. This series has one of the most contemptible characters I have ever read in fiction in Angus Thermopyle. There may be a character somewhere more appalling, but Angus’ horrific deeds a...more
I dislike this work of scifi. I find it repugant. Too bad since his Thomas Covenant series is among my favorite books of all time. That said, this book is charged with despair, anguish, and triumph. Sadly I just cannot connect with it or make myself really care for any of the characters. This book is happily on its way back to the thrift store.
One of my favorite series! It's kind of amazing that I made it to the last book since I really did not enjoy the first two. And in fact, I didn't enjoy ANY of his Thomas Covenant series. But for some reason I contined to read. And books 3-5 were well worth it! Some of the best SF writing I have read.
Very brutal and bleak, but probably the best sci-fi series I've ever read. I must admit the first tome started out in a mild blah-mode, but following Donaldson's trend, the story improved with every book and turned the characters' positions upside down more than once. The last volume was packed with so much plotting and unexpected twists that I kept more than once breathing through my teeth. And by gods, what character development indeed; rare's the author that can squeeze so much personality ou...more
The "Gap" series by Donaldson is perhaps one of the most convoluted and politically twisted series I have ever enjoyed reading. The story from the very start has the reader hooked and wondering what is next. I feel this series is a must read for the loyal science fiction fans.
Murder, mystery, metaphysics, psychology. A sci-fi re-take on Wagner's Ring Cycle. This series is long, dark, absorbing read. Better read together and in order than as individual books, as the many-threaded plot winds through the whole series.
An absolutely maddening and horrible book, I hated it from the very beginning, but managed to read it through, somehow.
And the cover is atrocious, showing a nauseatingly tiger-striped spaceship! Still gives me vertigo to look at it!
And the cover is atrocious, showing a nauseatingly tiger-striped spaceship! Still gives me vertigo to look at it!
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At the end of the first book in 'the Gap' series Stephen Donaldson talks about the ideas behind the story and the vision that drives it. He likens the series to Wagner's Ring. It seems that way as you go from book to book, highlight to highlight, climax to climax. It keeps building to its ultimate conclusion.
The final installment brings the whole saga to an exciting climax as all the great forces of the universe clash and humankind's existence hangs on the brink and amidst all this a fe...more
The final installment brings the whole saga to an exciting climax as all the great forces of the universe clash and humankind's existence hangs on the brink and amidst all this a fe...more
almost as horrible a feeling as the first Gap book. awfully hard to read. so raw, hard, evil? not sure what Donaldson's intention was.
What a masterpiece of a series. The conclusion is riveting. Donaldson has secured his spot in my Fantasy/Scifi hall of fame. Well done.
This is book 5 of the Gap sequence by Stephen Donaldson. A great conclusion to the series. Good Sci-Fi that would make a cool movie.
One of the best titles for a book, ever! Great series with intriguing characters in impossible situations.
This Day All Gods Die: The Gap Into Ruin (Gap Series/Stephen R. Donaldson) by Stephen R. Donaldson (1996)
The Gap books are - regardless of any assocations with Wagner's Ring Cycle - STRAIGHT FUCKED.
Would have gotten higher marks, except for the liberal use of profanity.
Will the suffering ever end??
my least fave donaldson.....
wow,wow,wow
Wait, I read this book? Didn't I learn my lesson? Wait, I actually finished this book? What is wrong with me?
Great end to a fantastic series
This series was amazing constructed using archetypes of the hero, villain, slave, to define main characters roles in each book and then having them switch roles after each one. Built as a tetrahedron the first three books formed a trilogy of character development which was then capped by the fourth. In true Adamsesk fashion he then added a fifth to make it a five book quadrology.
Worth reading. Oh how I hate waiting for new books in series!
Worth reading. Oh how I hate waiting for new books in series!
Not light fare, but powerful.
This book is to space opera what Wagner's Götterdämmerung is to Opera music. Simply put it's a superb example from a superb writer at the top of his game. Unswervingly recommended.
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Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist. He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and master's degree from Kent State University. He currently resides in New Mexico.
Stephen R. Donaldson was born on the 13th May 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, James, was a medical missionary and his mother, Ruth, a prosthetist (a pers...more
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Stephen R. Donaldson was born on the 13th May 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, James, was a medical missionary and his mother, Ruth, a prosthetist (a pers...more
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