# The Real Story & Forbidden Knowledge

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- Book: [The Real Story & Forbidden Knowledge](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-donaldson/the-real-story-forbidden-knowledge) ([The Real Story & Forbidden Knowledge.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-donaldson/the-real-story-forbidden-knowledge.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Donaldson](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-donaldson)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7508-334-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-09-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A powerful and intense sf tale from a master storyteller In the far future, gap drives faster-than-light deep space travel, but sometimes this afflicts some with irreparable brain damage. A Zone Implant can turn such a person into a zombie, to protect his shipmates, but it's highly illegal. Ensign Morn Hyland works for the United Mining Company, which is in charge of law enforcement throughout known space. She lives aboard a police ship, together with most of her family; their job is to chase down pirates and other illegals who prey on the weak, or smuggle goods into forbidden space. Her life is nothing out of the ordinary - until she falls in with the pirate Captain Nick Succorso. All of a sudden, the young, strong, beautiful police officer appears to be falling in love - well, lust at least - with the murdering pirate, or so it appears to the folk at the space station's bar. But the real story was quite different ...