Reply #17: Are you saying that Morn did or didn't meet a bad end?

[Orrex]

Gap sickness (in the form of self-destructive psychosis), victim of horrific zone implant abuse/addiction, raped for months by Angus, forced to play the role of eager concubine for Nick, forced to surrendered to the Amnioni, etc. etc. etc.

Although she achieves a measure of redemption, the path she follows to get there is brutal and damaging. Not that any characters in the Gap Cycle really come out unscathed, but she certainly qualifies as an example of an abused female protagonist.


But you're right that Donaldson's works don't read like scripts--an all too rare quality!