Kirjahaku

Timescape is a tale of an epic journey across Time and Space by a creature who has named himself Noom. Noom is an Eternal. He has been ripped from his home by a cataclysmic explosion which birthed Time, itself. His mission is to find a way to capture Time and stuff it back into the hole it came out of. He wishes to restore his home: Eternity.Noom's travels bring him to Earth. Actually, it is here that he finds his name. He finds it in the sound of a large wind instrument being blown by a small brown man on a large, arid, sparsely populated land mass.Noom has met many biological constructs before. He has been traveling for a very, very long Time. But he soon discovers that the sentient biological species on this planet is very different from peoples he has met before.What could be the cause of these peoples' lack of respect for their planet? How is it that their short history is filled to the brim with violence and butchery?Are these peoples inherently aberrant, or has someone been interfering with their natural development?Noom soon discovers the presence of another Eternal like himself who has been on this planet for over four thousand of the years as they are measured here. It is Bang. She, too, has named herself, but not from something found here on this puny planet, but rather from the event which launched her on her own journey through Time and Space. Noom attempts to capture Bang. As they struggle in the thin air over a huge, icy land mass, Bang calves. Her calf, another female of their species is not an infant. They are Eternals. The calf has always been. It just had not chosen to be born yet. Until now.Now, this planet has a native-born Eternal to count among its peoples.But she is not pleased with what she finds here. The World itself is lovely. But its peoples are not. She has chosen her own name, and she has chosen it from one of this planet's ancient cultures.She is Kali. Not the goddess of Time and Change. The other one. The one of Death and Destruction.The fight for the future of the peoples of this planet begins. Kali is calling for the extermination of the unworthy peoples who litter her new home. Bang vacillates, caught between her own love of this planet and her feelings for her calf.Noom will defend these peoples.It is his destiny.

A Life describes several incarnations of a single human energy entity. It is, of course, a work of fantasy. This fantasy is founded on Buddhist philosophy, and intertwines themes of karma, mission, wisdom, and human compassion in the course of telling life stories.

Meet Sharon Hayes. She is a detective sergeant with the Homicide Division of the Bronx Central Precinct, New York City Police Department. She is new to Homicide, but a seasoned cop. This is the story of her first case, and her journey of discovery about who she really is . . . and was.She also has an abusive husband, and a voice in her head.Sharon's voice is female and speaks to her, constantly and with acerbic wit - and with a British accent.Sharon explains her voice to others. She says she gets "hunches" and that her hunches are usually right. It's her voice: despite the attitude, it is normally correct when it advises Sharon or points her attention to some hitherto overlooked evidence. Sharon lives in our not-too-distant future. In this future, people are kept healthy through a daily regimen of standard pharmaceuticals. Disease has all but been eliminated. The air is clear: fossil fuels are no longer used to power vehicles or other types of equipment. Society is safer: bullets and the weapons that fire them are illegal.That does not mean that Sharon is not armed and dangerous.As our story opens, Sharon has uncovered a connection between eight formerly unrelated murders that provides the precinct with its first solid lead on the cases: they are related. The Bronx has a serial killer on the loose.Sharon is the new detective on the squad, and must watch her mouth and her attitude in order to become a welcome member of the well-oiled team. It both helps and hinders her that the sqad's veteran lieutenant is her own godfather. Years of domestic abuse have made Sharon hard; she finds it difficult to observe societal niceties. Her new partner, Detective Sergeant Courtenay Flowers, grates on the few of Sharon's nerves that aren't numb, putting stresses on their teamwork, and allowing Sharon constant opportunities to exercise her sarcastic wit.As Sharon would say at this juncture, "sigh".Join Sharon Hayes on her first homicide case. Hope you enjoy the experience

Chance Bonner is an American boy with an existential secret he is about to discover: he is living his life backwards. He is in his first incarnation, and has already found the correct practice, the Buddhism of the Sun. His mother taught him about this philosophy and its daily recitation of sections of the sacred sutra. As these facts of his early life demonstrate, Chance is very, very lucky. It's karma, actually, and his is extremely good. But is it good enough to enable him to stand alone, combat, and defeat the various negative forces of the Universe which arise to confront him? To confound his every effort to develop into an upstanding human being? To even kill him if they cannot destroy his spirit-his luck? He must first determine what these forces are and where they originate. Without this knowledge, all of his efforts will be futile.

Mankind has fled to the Asteroid Belt to escape its bloating red sun. Humanity has evolved-it had to in order to survive...and now? Now there's a new threat. Human beings from a parallel universe have discovered how to create and use gateways-portals-between universes to travel. To make contact. To attack. To steal the dark energy which buffers one universe from another. This story is not about the future of one world, but rather the fate of an infinite number of worlds, all parallel to our own.

Dr. Albert Clarke has a problem: he and his wife have seventeen children in a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house. Fortunately, Dr. Clarke has researched and developed the means to address his problem: he can separate a person's psyche (one's "person") from their physical form (one's "product") and store them without expiration dates. Al keeps moving his children into and out of active inventory, leaving at most six of them in active status at a time...living room is no longer an issue But his children are blessed with his intelligence, too, and so his thirteen year old son spies on Dad's doings down in the home's basement. He sees it all; he understands it all. And so, when his father is occupied upstairs, young Mark Clarke mixes up two of the containers, putting his sister Katie's "person" next to his brother Larry's "product"...and let the mayhem begin. You see, Dr. Clarke did not know that one person's psyche could be put into another person's body. He assumed that the death of both constructs would result. But it works. Seven-year-old Katie wakes up in eight-year-old Larry's body. This discover is monumental: if someone unethical should acquire Dr. Clarke's process, the rich could live forever. They could prey on the handsome homeless, for example, and transfer their psyche's from their old and ailing bodies into healthy, young ones: it would mean immortality for them. Dr. Clarke is not unethical. He is horrified as he considers the possibilities. He knows he must do something to protect the world from his technology...but what?

Sharon Hayes is back. So is the voice in her head. You know, the one who helps her solve crimes. After her first - and last - major case as a private detective, Sharon, or "Styx" as her family and friends know her, has rejoined the Bronx Central Precinct Homicide Squad. She has a new partner, and roommate. It's the exotic, beautiful, distracting, 6'8", 154 lbs. Detective Nikki Noble. They are assigned their first case together: the murder of a high-end prostitute in a luxury apartment on The Concourse. That, of course, is The Grand Concourse, a major and historic boulevard which runs the distance from Fordham Road to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. The murder victim is one Annette Antoninni. Her age is listed as 35. She has been posed at the crime scene, elegantly coiffed and clothed, with only the knife protruding from her chest to spoil the scene. One of the detectives' first discoveries is that this lady is clean: she has no record. So why has she been labelled a prostitute? The answer to that question unlocks a door to many more questions. Puzzles. Conundra. That's the plural of conundrum, isn't it? So Antoninni isn't her real name. Thirty-five isn't her real age. And, although the knife is the proximate cause of death, she is found to be riddled with cancer. That's another problem. The year is 2057. People don't die of cancer any more. Sharon Hayes and Nikki Noble begin the long trek to unravelling the mysteries surrounding not just Annette Antoninni's death - but also her long and sordid life. So she is really sixty-or-seventy-something. So are a mystery group of "old dudes" who meet with her weekly at a bar that is Sharon's home away from home: The Yankee Doodle. The unravelling of Annette Antoninni's life takes the detectives back to Nome, Alaska, where one Angela Tucci has just been crowned as "Miss Nome." The beautiful young Angie Tucci then leaves for Fairbanks, Seattle, and eventually Los Angeles, where she meets and befriends Joseph DeSantos. That's right. Joseph DeSantos, AKA "The Napa Knifer". He is caught and incarcerated. He dies just days before his scheduled execution. So why then are his prints and semen all over the crime scene in the Bronx apartment? DeSantos had accomplices back in the 2000's when his murder sprees started. Although DeSantos and his cohorts have aged chronologically by fifty years, they seem to have physically aged only a decade. How is this possible? Maybe the three "old dudes" in The Yankee Doodle aren't DeSantos, Sanders, and Chavez after all.... If not, then who are they? Why do they meeti Antoninni weekly and pay court to her? And how is it that they stop coming to the bar when Antoninni is murdered? And one more tickler: Sharon Hayes's dad is back. Yeap, DeWayne NMI Doyle, supposedly locked in a persistent vegetative state in the NY State Hospital for the Criminally Insane returns in this tale, too. What the hell is this maniac up to this time? Join us and find out

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt. And a gifted, if egotistic psychiatrist. He has "hung his shingle" on Venice, a large and ore-rich asteroid in the Kepler Belt. He plies his trade amongst its most prominent and wealthy citizens. He is driven by a hunger to discover the secrets of immortality, and uses his profession to search for signs of it: immortality. And at last he thinks he has found it. Join him in his journey of discovery, as he dares to take on the guilds, and most particularly, its leaders, in his deliberate but desperate mission. Beware He does not take prisoners

In the second adventure of the series, Sharon Hayes is now a private detective. She has quit the NYPD after her first - and last - homicide case. While waiting for her first paying client, Sharon researches a series of fatal accidents which have occured in her local tri-county area in the last few months. Her "hunch-o-meter" is pinging, a good indication that she is on to something. Her overwhelming sense of curiosity prods her into following up on the last of these accidents. Despite her better judgment, and the advice of the voice she carries in her head, Sharon visits the victim's bereaved husband, bearing nothing but a hunch and a store-bought bundt cake. Her rudeness and her curiosity pay off, however, when the husband reveals a link between his recently deceased wife and another of the victims that Sharon has identified. This is all Sharon needs to kick off a full-scale investigation, with herself as client. Sharon is also pursuing the regression therapy she started in the first book of her series. When her psychiatrist, Dr. Ronald Black, gets entangled with the accident victims, Sharon has to enlist the help of her best friends, Mary Griffith and Gayle George, in going undercover to further investigate him. Dr. Black leads a twice-weekly Assertiveness Support Group in a local church. Both of the last two accident victims attended his sessions As Sharon digs deeper and deeper into the relationship between her psychiatrist and a growing list of accident victims, she has to draw on the assistance of her former homicide squad members, her attorneys, her Forensics Lab heart throb, and her voice. The voice in her head. The sarcastic, sardonic, hyper critical British woman who resides in her brain.Join Sharon and her diverse team of professionals, real and "unreal", as she uncovers a diabolical plot to abduct, molest, and murder women - while making the murders look like simple but fatal accidents.Spoiler alert: she has a family reunion of sorts in this adventure, too Her birth father, DeWayne Doyle returns at his craziest, and gets involved up to his eyebrows in the sinister doings. The year is 2057. Guns and bullets are illegal. So is Crisco. People are all thin and healthy because of the required daily regimen of pills they are mandated to take. Cars are almost all electric. And Sharon continues to scald the roof of her mouth with hot coffee she gulps from Kal Koins. While following her detective story, also enjoy a look at her world, a future not that far from our own present.