Stephen Donaldson presents a space opera that tells about life on orbital stations lost in space, about pirates and policemen, about the emptiness of Deep Space, which breaks the human psyche and knows no mercy. The main characters are Angus Thermopyle, a pirate and a murderer; Maury Hyland, a police lieutenant who committed an unwitting crime and became a victim of Thermopile; Nick Saccorso, the legendary star captain who can save Mori... or become her worst nightmare. True History and Forbidden Knowledge are the first two books in the Deep Space epic.