沃尔特·特维斯（Walter Tevis, 1928—1984） 美国小说家、作家协会会员。生于旧金山，11岁被父母托管于斯坦福儿童康复中心，一年后与父母团聚于肯塔基州。在小镇中学任教期间，开始创作短篇小说，发表于《周六晚报》《花花公子》等报刊。曾在俄亥俄大学长期执教。后死于肺癌。共创作6部长篇及多部短篇，作品被翻译成近40种语言，改编为多部影视作品，广受好评。 译者简介： 易真 自由译者，译有《心灵之歌》《天外来客》、《我们是幸运的》《归来记》（即将出版）等。

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he use...(展开全部)

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth on a desperate mission. He is obsessed with his goal but plagued by unrelenting loneliness, symbolic of all outsiders who find themselves in a strange land filled with strange inhabitants and customs.

Loki is...Earth's Mightiest Hero?! After dying a grisly death in WAR OF THE REALMS, the reborn Trickster learned a valuable lesson in warmongering: Don't get caught. But now Loki has a whole new set of responsibilities - and his brother Thor isn't about to let him walk away from them. Restless with his new duties, Loki seeks out the advice of the closest thing Midgard has to a ...(展开全部)

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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)