SRD often refers to the whole Wagner thing, but at times the story isn't entirely faithful to the opera, and I'd say that the datacore editing is one of those times. Basically, there's no way that it allowed Angus to forget his past atrocities and become a genuine hero, but it prevented him from bei...

Hmm, the scene didn't bother me overly. It was fairly horrific, granted, and I felt like I was getting phantom pains just reading it, but it let the reader know just how bad Billingate was, and how depraved it's inhabitants were. SRD was asked this exact question in an interview once, and he basical...

Hmm, I found Mikka to be on of the 'cooler' characters in the series. I really liked the way that whatever was thrown at her, she just got down to business, but that she had a vulnerable side as well, like when she went to talk to Morn in her cabin, and he responsibility she feels towards Ciro.

In timeline of the Gap Series, Mikka, Sib, Vector, Liete, Malda Verone and the others come across as good people, but it's likely that they've committed some atrocities in the past. I'd say that the only truly 'good' people in the series are: Davies, Ciro (too young to be blamed for anything that Ca...

I actually quite liked the Ancillary Documentation, it was a good way to inform the reader of how the technology of the series worked without the generic sci-fi device of haveing a character who knows absolutely nothing and has to have every aspect of the technology explained to them by someone. As ...

I thought the deaths of Nick and Sorus were very well done indeed. Nick's story had come as far as it could, he'd lost his ship and with it the only people who still believed in his bucaneer image. All he had left was the possibility of revenge over Sorus. The fact that Sorus shot him showed us just...