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The Gap Cycle
aka: The Gap Series

The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson is a five part Science Fiction Epic, borrowing heavily from Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. The Storyline follows several branches and perspectives which are brought together as more and more information is revealed about what is going on behind the scenes.

Contains examples of:

Big Bad: UMC CEO Holt Fasner
Break the Cutie: Morn Hyland
Consummate Liar: Hashi Lebwohl makes no distinction between Truth and Lies.
Dragon with an Agenda: Warden Dios
Fiction500: Holt Fasner owns most bigger Enterprises, the Police and buys the World Governments support whenever he needs it
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every chapter is titled with the character from whose perspective it is written.
Insufferable Genius: Hashi Lebwohl
It Is Pronounced Tro PAY: Angus's surname is pronounced Ther-mo-pi-lay. He gets very annoyed when Nick calls him Thermo-pile.
Living Lie Detector: Warden Dios prostetic eye enables him to read IR emissions and detect signs of stress associated with lying.
Magnificent Bastard: Warden Dios
Moral Event Horizon: Most of the cast dances around it, YMMV if anyone actually crosses it.
One Nation Under Copyright: Most of humanitys corporations and half of the government are ruled by the United Mining Companies
Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Averted by the Amnion
Space Opera: The Gap Cycle borrows heavily from Wagners Ring Cycle
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Not as bad as in the Covenenat novels, and depending on the perspective. Hashis chapters are full of it, while Davies or Morns are comparatively simple.
The Dragon: Wardon Dios and Cleatus Fane.
The Woobie: Pretty much everyone.