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Completed The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge. Interesting how Donaldson is reversing the situations for his characters. Over at Wiki, the page for The Real Story describes Donaldson's intent to present the three classic archetypes of victim, villain, and hero and then interchange them. The...

Dave, Yes. In the after word of The Real Story Donaldson describes basing the series on Wagner's Ring Cycle (a reworking if I recall correctly). I'm about 150 pages into Forbidden Knowledge and I'm enjoying the story threads that Donaldson is developing. Curious to see where it goes. -...

Restarted the Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson.... Finished a re-read of The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story a few days ago and still find myself disturbed by the treatment of the main female character Morn Hyland; which is why I never got past the first book in a prior attempt at this...

Just finished Excession, the fourth 'Culture' novel by Iain M. Banks. I've been reading the books in order and in some ways this is my least favorite as the ethical considerations of some of the earlier novels aren't as strongly featured in this work. Given the subject matter and many of the...