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CIETUMA PLANĒTA

Аннотация

DŽEIMS VAITS

CIETUMA PLANĒTA

No vācu valodas tulkojis MODRIS SENBERGS

RĪGA 1991

Mākslinieks M. Adumans

Naidīgs sargkuģis nenoguris uzmana planētu, ko nepielūdzams ienaidnieks pārvērtis par ieslodzījuma vietu vairāk nekā pusmiljonam cilvēku no gūsta saņemtajām Zemes kosmiskā karaspēka daļām.

Tā dēvētie «tārpi», kuri jau vairāk nekā simt gadus turpina karu ar cil­vēci, uzskata, ka izlaušanās no planētas ir un paliks tikai nereāls sapnis — un liela daļa gustekņu laika gaitā ar to samierinājušies. Un tieši tad kopā ar jaunu sagūstīto zemiešu grupu uz planētas tiek nogādāts sektora maršals Varrens, kurš galu galā izšķiras īstenot šķietami nepiepildāmu bēgšanas piānu . ..

Līdzīgi slavenajam fantastam Herbertam Velsam rakstnieks Džeimss Vaits fantastiskajā piedzīvojumu romānā iesaka cilvēcei nelolot ilūzijas par to, ka reizē ar savstarpējo karu izbeigšanos izzudīs arī visas cilvēkus apdraudošās iznīcības briesmas — jo nāve noteikti uzglūnēs arī no izplatījuma.

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Star Surgeon
Уайт Джеймс
Star Surgeon

Dr. Conway must deal with an unconscious patient, classification ELPH, who may be a cannibal or a demigod, or both. It came from the “other galaxy”, and the species is well known, almost infamous, to the Ians, who are also from another galaxy. It is extremely long-lived, and regularly takes complete rejuvenation treatments, including the brain and memory, to keep itself young. By doing this, it is practically immortal. It, although unconscious, appeared to have the ability to negate the most powerful drugs and resist surgery to cure its skin condition. This later turned out to be the work of the entity’s “doctor”, who is an intelligent, organized collection of microscopic, virus-type cells. Once Doctor Conway realizes this, he uses a wooden stake to make the ELPH’s doctor focus itself in one small location, at which time it is removed from the ELPH, informed regarding the physiology-problems of its patient, and put back in. The patient, whose name is Lonvellin, quickly makes a full recovery, and it leaves to do what it does best: missions that involve taking backwards planetary cultures and pulling them up “by their bootstraps”. His particular mission, this time, is to cure a diseased planet called Etla, and he recruits Dr. Conway and the “Monitor Corps” to help him. When The Empire that controls the Planet of Etla misinterprets Lonvellin’s efforts as an Act of War, the Empire declares war on the Sector General space hospital.

Conway helps organise the evacuation of most of the station’s staff and patients, and following the death or injury of more senior staff, becomes the most senior surviving physician. After a brutal series of attacks, and with the hospital on the brink of defeat, a group of Federation and Empire soldiers convince Conway to help in a mutiny against the Federation commander Dermod. The Empire soldiers had been told that the Federation had attacked Etla, rather than trying to help it, but seeing the way all casualties were treated equally on the station, and in particular witnessing Conway breaking down after failing to save the life of an alien Empire soldier, convinced them that they had been lied to.