Великое Кольцо

<p>Andromēdas Miglājs (1957, latv.1961) Zinātniski fantastisks romāns par tālu nākotni, kad cilvēki dzīvo harmoniskā komunistiskā sabiedrībā. Visas planētas tautas sadzīvo vienotā saimē un dažādās Visuma malās mītošās civilizācijas sadarbojas kopējā «Lielajā Lokā» apmainoties ar kultūras un zinātnes sasniegumiem. Šī grandiozā utopija pavēra jaunus apvāršņus padomju fantastiskajā literatūrā. Pirmā grāmata triloģijā par Lielo Loku. Otrā «Čūskas sirds» (1959?) Zinātniski fantastisks stāsts tematiski turpina «Andromēdas miglāja» norises — Zemes astronauti tālu kosmosā satiek citas civilizācijas pārstāvjus, kuru vielmaiņa balstās uz ftora, nevis uz skābekļa, kā zemiešiem.</p><p>Trešā «Vērša stunda» (1969) Zinātniski fantastisks romāns, kura darbība risinās uz tālas planētas Tormans (Mocības), kur valda nežēlīga oligarhiska tirānija. Dzīve tur lielā mērā atgādināja padomju reālijas. Romāns tika publicēts klajas izdevēju nevērības dēļ, par ko viņiem nācās dārgi samaksāt. Atklāti kritizēt romānu padomju vara neuzdrīkstējās — Jefremovs bija pārāk populārs, taču grāmata uz 20 gadiem tika noklusēta — to nepublicēja, izņēma no bibliotēkām un nepieminēja nekādos rakstniekam veltītos rakstos. Latviski protams netika iztulkota.</p><p>Stāstos un romānos Jefremovs slavēja padomju cilvēku un “drīz gaidāmo” komunistisko nākotni, kad visiem uz Zemes klāsies jauki un saulaini, taču viņam pašam nebija ilūziju par to, kādā valstī un kādā laikā viņš dzīvo — īsi pirms Staļina nāves viņš apcietinājuma gaidās sadedzināja savas dienasgrāmatas un vēstules. Drīzumā pēc Jefemova nāves (1972.gada 5.oktobrī 65 gadu vecumā) VDK darbinieki izdarīja viņa dzīvoklī kratīšanu, meklējot “ideoloģiski kaitīgu literatūru”, un atņēma visus viņa melnrakstus. Uz diviem gadu desmitiem Jefremova vārds tika aizmirsts.</p><

Великое Кольцо

<p>Die acht Mitglieder der Mannschaft des Raumschiffes sind auf dem Weg zu einem 300 Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernten Kohlenstoffstern, um dort die Entstehung einer Sonne zu studieren. 300 Lichtjahre, dies ist nicht nur ein weiter Weg, sondern bedeutet auch, dass die Kosmonauten erst nach 700 Jahren auf die Erde zurückkehren werden, 700 Jahre, die sie nur wenige Jahre haben altern lassen. Nicht einmal die Urenkel ihrer Freunde und Verwandten werden dann noch am Leben sein. Wie wird sie die zukünftige Erde empfangen? Trotz dieser Überlegungen haben die Kosmonauten keinen Zweifel am Sinn ihres Unternehmens.</p><p>Ihr Raumschiff, kleiner als frühere Langstreckenraumschiffe, bietet ausreichend Platz für Sport und Kunst. Hochentwickelte Technik sichert die medizinische Versorgung.</p><p>Als die Expedition zur Erde zurückkehren will, empfängt sie den Suchstrahl eines fremden Raumschiffes. In der Zeit zwischen dem ersten Funkkontakt und dem Treffen diskutiert die Mannschaft die alte amerikanische Science-Fiction-Ezählung von Murray Leinster. In ihr wird eine ähnliche Situation geschildert, doch wie anders ist der Verlauf. In der Erzählung bestimmen Misstrauen und Angst die Begegnung — die Menschen des Großen Rings dagegen träumen schon seit Generationen von den Brüdern im All. Sie haben die feste Überzeugung, dass Zivilisationen, die weit in den Kosmos fliegen, so hoch entwickelt sein müssen, dass sie keine Aggressionen kennen.</p><p>Die Raumschiffe begegnen sich und recht schnell kommt es zur Verständigung. Äußerlich gleichen die Außerirdischen Menschen. Doch ihr Organismus basiert auf Fluor, statt auf Sauerstoff. Ein direkter Kontakt ist nicht möglich, die Fremden, die schon seit langem nach gleichartigen Zivilisationen im All suchen, bleiben auch weiterhin allein. Da empfangen sie den Hilferuf eines anderen Raumschiffes. Schon scheint alles zur Abreise bereit, da hat die Biologin eine Vision. Mit wenigen Skizzen dokumentiert sie einen grandiosen Plan — die Umwandlung des Fluor-Stoffwechsels in einen Stoffwechsel auf Sauerstoffgrundlage. Ein Plan, der in tausenden Jahren die Fluormenschen in die Gemeinschaft der galaktischen Völker führen könnte.</p><p>Die Raumschiffe trennen sich, das fremde Schiff eilt dem havarierten Raumschiff zu Hilfe, während die Tellur ihren Weg zur Erde fortsetzt…</p><

Великое Кольцо

Fragment książki — Proszę włączyć powietrze — dał rozkaz Erg Noor pozostałym na statku. Dzieliła ich od tamtych nieprzepuszczalna ściana. Dopiero kiedy ciśnienie w komorze osiągnęło wysokość dziesięciu atmosfer i było wyższe niż zewnętrzne, dźwigi hydrauliczne wypchnęły ciasno przylegające drzwi. Ciśnienie powietrza niemal wyrzuciło ludzi z komory, nie pozwalając, aby z obcego świata przedostało się do wnętrza statku coś szkodliwego. Drzwi zatrzasnęły się gwałtownie. Smuga reflektora wyznaczyła jaskrawą drogę, po której badacze zaczęli kuśtykać na swoich sprężynowych nogach, ledwie dźwigając ciężkie ciała. Przy końcu świetlnej trasy widniał ogromny statek, ale nierówna, usiana kamieniami droga zdawała się ciągnąć bez końca.<

Alison Reynolds

J P Beaumont

J P Beaumont

<p>From New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes a chilling tale of suspense, where romance turns deadly at the hands of a man whose heart is filled with…</p><p>CRUEL INTENT</p><p>On a dating site, singleatheart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for sex without strings. But these "married singles" are flirting with more than just their vows. At the heart of this seemingly innocent service, a vengeful computer hacker is playing games with people's lives…and deaths.</p><p>Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement. In the midst of a remodel, the last thing she expects is a murder investigation that will stop the construction on her home. But when the savagely murdered body of stay-at-home mom Morgan Forester is found, Ali's contractor Bryan is the prime suspect. Bryan swears he has nothing to do with his wife's murder – but as the investigation progresses Ali seems to be the only resident of Sedona who believes him.</p><p>Determined to prove Bryan's innocence, Ali unknowingly lands herself directly in the path of a calculating killer. In a world filled with encrypted computer traps and life-threatening lies, will Ali be able to decode the actions of a ruthless man determined to destroy women – before he uses his wicked website to find her?</p><

Brandon Walker

Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County, Arizona, finds herself in the midst of danger and deception when she attempts to exact revenge for the murder of her police officer husband.<

<p>Life is good for Joanna Brady in the small desert community of Bisbee. She has Jenny, her adored nine-year-old daughter, and solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy, a local lawman who's running for Sheriff of Cochise County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys Andy Brady's future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun.</p><p>The police brass claim that Andy was dirty-up to his neck in drugs and smuggling-and that the shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna knows a cover-up when she hears one…and murder when she sees it. But her determined effort to track down an assassin and clear her husband's name are placing herself and her Jenny in serious jeopardy. Because, in the desert, the truth can be far more lethal than a rattler's bite.</p><

Joanna Brady

J P Beaumont

Alison Reynolds

J P Beaumont

Alistair Reynolds

Alison Reynolds

Brandon Walker

J P Beaumont

J P Beaumont

Brandon Walker

Alison Reynolds

J P Beaumont

J P Beaumont

J P Beaumont

J P Beaumont

When the body of an elderly widow turns up in the desert, Sheriff Joanna Brady searches for a killer among the victim's greedy offspring, her mysterious much younger live-in handyman turned lover, and corrupt local politicians.<

<p>A terrifying truth is buried at the juncture where lethal greed and unassailable power converge.</p><p>The dead woman was an artist recently arrived from Washington State, cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career. Now all that remains of Rochelle Baxter lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue, and Sheriff Joanna Brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert community.</p><p>But there is more to this homicide than initially meets the eye – and more to the victim, who died while supposedly under the conscientious protection of the government.</p><p>A big-city legal establishment has no faith in the abilities of a small-town sheriff, let alone a female sheriff. Instructed to swallow her indignation, Joanna awaits the arrival of the “help” Washington ’s attorney general is sending her: the newest member of the state’s Special Homicide Investigation team – a man named Beaumont.</p><p>Bisbee, Arizona, is the last place J.P. Beaumont wants to be. The ghosts of a painful past are too numerous there, and his reluctant “partner,” Sheriff Brady, resents his intrusion and cannot help but make her feelings known. But the road they are forced to travel together is taking some unexpected turns, running two dedicated servants of the law headfirst into the impenetrable stone walls of a shocking conspiracy of silence. For Brady and Beaumont ’s hunt is disturbing a very deadly nest of rattlers, and suddenly trust is the only option they have.</p><p>On their own in the Arizona desert, they know death can be cold and quick. And nobody is watching their backs here… they’ll have to watch each other’s.</p><

J P Beaumont

As a militia movement invades Arizona 's Cochise County, a gun dealer dies mysteriously, and his stock of high-powered weapons vanishes, Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates two other murders that point to armed separatist Alton Hosfield, a probe that threatens her own life and those of her family.<

The sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, widow Joanna Brady becomes caught up in a deadly family tragedy initiated by a pair of star-crossed lovers, while trying to prove herself in the male-dominated world of law enforcement and struggling to cope with echoes of Tombstone 's infamous Clanton gang.<

In the wake of a high school coach's shocking murder, homicide detective J. P. Beaumont begins to suspect that the victim's widow, who is about to give birth, is hiding a dangerous secret.<

J P Beaumont

The little girl was only five, much too young to die — a lost treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered.She could have been J.P. Beaumont's kid, and the determined Seattle homicide detective won't rest until her killer pays dearly. But the hunt is leading Beaumont into a murky world of religious fanaticism, and toward a beautiful, perilous obsession all his own. And suddenly Beau himself is a target — because faith can be dangerous…and love can kill.<

Alison Reynolds

J P Beaumont

J. BIRZIŅŠ KRISTIEŠU ESHATOLOĢIJA KRISTIEŠI UN ATEISTI PAR —    cilvēka miršanu; —    pasaules galu; —    mirušo augšāmcelšanos; —    dieva tiesu; —    dieva valstības uzcelšanu; —    elli un mokām; —    paradīzi un prieku. IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1969 <

The solid 12th entry in bestseller Jance's lively crime series (Exit Wounds, etc.) to feature Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Ariz., finds Joanna newly reelected and about to have her second child. When the cops learn that a murdered man with a sordid personal history has links to one of Arizona 's most prominent judges, Joanna's investigation turns up a connection to an early case of her late father's, an honored sheriff. Next, the brutal beating of Jeannine Phillips, an Animal Control officer, leads the sheriff's department, its staff already stretched thin, to a confrontation with a notorious ranching family and suspected illegal immigrants. Then Joanna's obnoxious in-laws arrive for the imminent birth. In a heart-stopping climax, Joanna shoots a suspect as he tries to kidnap two children. Subplots dealing with social issues such as alcoholism and dysfunctional family relationships lend moral weight. As usual, Jance deftly brings the desert, people and towns of southeastern Arizona to life.<

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