The Real Story & Forbidden Knowledge

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 ...