This Day All Gods Die
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4.7 • 49 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Gap series comes to a shattering climax in a cataclysmic showdown that will mean either the survival of all humankind . . . or its absorption and annihilation.
Drifting in space, sabotaged by a crewman tainted with an alien mutagen, the starship Trumpet broadcasts to any ship in range the formula of the mutagen’s antidote—a drug the United Mining Companies has suppressed for its own sinister purposes. Aboard the crippled ship, the fugitives and survivors—Morn Hyland, an ex-UMCP cop, Angus Thermopyle, a newly freed cyborg, and unwilling saboteur Ciro Vasaczk—must make a desperate gamble. Pursued by the UMCP ship Punisher, threatened by the return of an Amnion combat vessel, they will hijack the police craft by any means necessary—and take it back to Earth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Drawing on a rich vein of science fiction, Donaldson brings to a resounding, though not triumphant, conclusion his Gap series, begun with The Gap into Conflict (1992) and continued through The Gap into Madness (1994). The struggle between Warden Dios, director of the United Mining Companies Police, and Horst Fasner, CEO of United Mining Companies itself, reaches a climax here. So does the tension between the human race and the alien Amnion, exacerbated by human development of a drug that prevents people from being mutated into the aliens. Meanwhile, much-victimized Morn Hyland and her motley crew are heading for Earth and arrive at the same time as an Amnion warship. The first third of the novel wins no marks for pacing, but later portions pick up speed, with the final battles near Earth satisfying all requirements for logic, excitement and catharsis. Donaldson's usual weaknesses are in evidence: substitution of scenery-chewing and angst for characterization, and an abundance of prolix passages. Too, this volume may confound those new to the series. But it's a crowd-pleasing story told on a grand scale, SF adventure with a genuinely galactic feel.
Customer Reviews
Who writes the official reviews?
I intensely dislike Donaldson's character development. The rape, the violence and the extent of imagination therein must indicate psychopathy in the author.
I began this series of books out of boredom and a lack of anything else intelligent to read.
And I hated it.
But the plot and, eventually, the abused and maniacal character interaction become impossible to ignore. The reader MUST find out what happens to them.
The review of this fifth book, before I bought it, was enough to make me think twice about my need for conclusion. I almost didn't bother.
And I would've been wrong.
It's obvious to me that the individual who wrote the official review either didn't read the first four of the series, reads as a machine would rather than a human interested in the enjoyment of intelligent reading, or isn't interested in selling the $8 iBook in the interest of his position.
Disregard the official review. Recognize that Donaldson cannot write other than the way he thinks, wordy, but intensely descriptive. If you are interested in his universe, plot and characters, this will not dismay you at all. Remember that "happy endings" endings always require a lamb of sacrifice, or two or three.
And never forget, for all the disgusting, horrific, violent and debasing situations Donaldson can think up to which he sacrifices his characters, in the end, in three series by him I've read, his end goal is repentance, and redemption.
Pay your dollar and take your chances. Read it.
I am glad I did.