Forbidden Knowledge: Book Review
I just finished reading Forbidden Knowledge by Stephen R. Donaldson. This is the second entry in The Gap Cycle, which is a five book science fiction series that was written back in the nineties. With this book, the series is starting to inflate into something expansive and engrossing on an epic scale. I really enjoyed the first entry of this series, The Real Story; particularly the horrifying elements and the deeper questions about the nature of control and the human capacity for depravity. This entry continues those questions, carrying trains of thought along related tracks. But alongside this, the story expands to bring in the political intrigue and the worldbuilding elements that weren't mentioned but hinted at in the first entry. Apparently, the epic aspect of the story only grows further from here. While that is amazing and has me excited for the rest of the story, I also found myself rather captured by the subtleties that were evident in this story. Every action seems to matt