The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen R. Donaldson

POSTED BY: Stylinlp38
UPDATED: Thursday, October 13, 2005 04:00
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STYLINLP38

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:32 PM

If any of you need more Firefly type space stories then this is exactly what your looking for. In fact this story is more of the same except the story line is much faster paced and the captain is harder edged. This whole ships captain thing in space reminds me of Han Solo in Star Wars and Pirates of the Carribean movies. A great ships captain leaves everyone on the ship in the dark and is allways 10 steps ahead of everyone else. Kinda like Captain Jack Sparrow. Enemies everywhere from local authorities, pirates, thugs, Empire/Alliance, crew members, etc etc.

This is the same author that wrote the best Fantasy books in history. Maybe better or at least as good as Lord of the Rings novels.
That series is with Thomas Covenant the White Gold Weilder.

This space series of books consists of 1 small book followed up by 4 massive sized books. When I saw Firefly the first time I thought "wow. thats The Gap into Conflict series!" Just a little softer and fluffier. :)

GATORMARC

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:56 PM

So, are you Stephen or are you his publicist?

GatorMarc

Eat 'em up, chomp, chomp.

STYLINLP38

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:13 PM

I don't know if you read alot of books but when I was growing up thru grade school then highschool I would read one scifi or fantasy book a week. Those were the times when SciFi conventions and roleplaying games where thee thing to do. Now adays...computer gamers with no background exp. Sad sad.

Those STephen Donaldson books was the first thing I thought of when seeing the first Firefly premiere episode. Everytime I noticed that captain heading towards the darkside was a sharp reminder what happened in those books. As one friend to another I would automatically recommend reading those books when the firefly subject came up.

SHOJOHOLIC

Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:00 AM

I'm deeply conflicted about SRD. On the one hand, I absolutely loved A Mirror of Her Dreams & A Man Rides Through (a two-part fantasy series of his), but I couldn't stand the Thomas Covenant story.

Of course, I didn't give it much of a chance; I stopped once the protagonist raped the first person who was nice/helpful to him. Especially since he had leprosy and didn't care if he passed it on to her (living as she did in her non-tech, fantasy realm where antibiotics have yet to debut).

Was I too quick to duck and cover?