Gap Cycle

The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson is essentially Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle in space. The setting is in a dystopian future where Earth is dependent on the resources of deep space and governed by a man who is in control of both the police [UMCP] and the biggest company in human history [UMC]. Most of the plot is driven by an Evil Plan of the UMCP director, seeking to undermine the control of the UMC CEO.

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Tropes used in Gap Cycle include:

• Aerith and Bob: Weird names are everywhere
• Crapsack World: The characters are trying to avoid this.
• Consummate Liar: Hashi Lebwohl makes no distinction between Truth and Lies.
• Fiction 500: Holt Fasner owns most bigger Enterprises, the Police and buys the World Governments support whenever he needs it.
• Insufferable Genius: Hashi Lebwohl and Lane Harbinger
• 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 Companyies
• 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: Cleatus Fane is the Dragons Dragon.