DOWN INTO THE GROUND - Novel,BEYOND THE LINE - Novel, TIME MASKS - Novel, AWAY OF DOUBT - Story, UNSUITABLE - Story.

The novel takes place in the distant future. Edmund Henderson, a former employee of the colonial administration, arrives on the planet Belzagore, formerly a possession of the Earth. On Belzagora live two types of intelligent creatures, outwardly more similar to animals, who created a unique, unlike anything else, non-technical civilization. Due to the massive anti-colonial movement on Earth, the exploitation of Belzagora was stopped, and the planet was granted complete independence. Most of the Earthlings left this planet, but a handful of former Belzagor researchers remained on it. They are attracted by the “second birth” ritual practiced among the planet’s aborigines, which promises every intelligent creature a complete renewal of its body and spirit. Henderson, who sincerely feels remorse for his participation in the ruthless exploitation of the intelligent inhabitants of the planet by earthlings, wants to undergo the “second birth” ritual. But, as it turns out, the ritual is fraught with great risk, since already one person who has undergone this ritual has turned into a terrible monster. But Henderson does not want to back down...

The novel takes place in the future. The main character becomes one of the Time Couriers. His task is to accompany tourists on excursions into the past. However, in ancient Byzantium he meets his distant great-great-grandmother, the wife of a noble and wealthy nobleman. The main character falls in love with her... Read for yourself what this will lead to.

1999. On the eve of the new millennium, a massive eschatological movement is sweeping the entire world. At this point, on Christmas Eve, a strange man appears in Rome, claiming to be a visitor from the future and living in the year 2999. This man, shocking the public with his extravagant behavior and public humiliating remarks about the level of human development at the end of the 20th century, gradually begins to play the role of the new Messiah, becoming the object of mass worship...

Alien creatures with which Colonel Deval had to deal in The Finger of the Lord, were a relatively primitive people, belonging to a type of culture entangled in rituals and taboos, much like those still found on Earth. But there is another option worthy of consideration: Earthlings may meet strangers on the stars who are much more complex than we are and who have unearthly powers of persuasion.

I have already considered the problem of how people will colonize planets where living conditions unsuitable for them. The first possible assumption was that it would probably be necessary to change and adapt people through genetic engineering so that they could live in new worlds. Now let's take this assumption a step further. In the distant future, when many planets will be inhabited by adapted earthlings, what will happen to an unadapted person, just like us, when he finds himself in a world to which he does not belong?