菲利普·瑞弗（Philip Reeve） 1966年出生于英国的布莱顿，紧邻伦敦的一个美丽的海滨城市。那里冬天寒冷得像童话世界，夏天美得像天堂。 他先后在剑桥艺术和技术学院以及布赖顿理工学院学习插图。他在书店工作多年，因为作恐怖历史小说的插图而略有名气。没人相信他从五岁就开始写作，而立之年才大器晚成，终于凭青少年文学处女作《致命引擎》（Mortal Engines）一书，征服了挑剔的英国编辑和读者，走红英伦。

This is an extraordinary fiction from a brilliant author...It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal...(展开全部)

In "A Darkling Plain", Philip Reeve brilliantly completes the breath-taking adventures that began with "Mortal Engines". Wren Natsworthy is enjoying life as an aviatrix but her father Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Tr...(展开全部)

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lems fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.

London is hunting The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus V...(展开全部)

Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, Quartet is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her l...(展开全部)

简介：拉维尔  艾尔文  花西子  雨皖期  余安柯  洁夕斯纯作者自娱自乐，可以跳过我的文章呀那是我第一次遇到那座山，自然听不得好言相劝我愿幻作晚星， 照亮你彻夜不熄的孤影浮世三千 不得有三水中月 镜中花 梦中你月可求 花可得唯你 求而不得自古多情空余恨好梦由来最易醒辞别再无相见日终是一人渡春秋我好想再见到他，思念无处安放

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims...(展开全部)

简介：拉维尔  艾尔文  花西子  雨皖期  余安柯  洁夕斯纯作者自娱自乐，可以跳过我的文章呀那是我第一次遇到那座山，自然听不得好言相劝我愿幻作晚星， 照亮你彻夜不熄的孤影浮世三千 不得有三水中月 镜中花 梦中你月可求 花可得唯你 求而不得自古多情空余恨好梦由来最易醒辞别再无相见日终是一人渡春秋我好想再见到他，思念无处安放

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims...(展开全部)