Neighbors saw Enoch Wallace as an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. They must never know that inside his unchanging house, he met and conversed with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien being named Uly...(展开全部)

Neighbors saw Enoch Wallace as an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. They must never know that inside his unchanging house, he met and conversed with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien being named Uly...(展开全部)

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the da...(展开全部)

(加) 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔Emily St. John Mandel 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔1979年出生于不列颠哥伦比亚省西海岸的一个小岛，18岁时离家远赴多伦多舞蹈学院学习现代舞，毕业后成为职业舞蹈演员。目前与丈夫生活在纽约。 曼德尔2002年开始文学创作，短篇作品曾被许多选集收录。2009年起，她陆续创作发表了三部长篇小说《蒙特利尔的最后一夜》《歌手的枪》和《洛拉的四重奏》，均列入美国独立书商协会推荐榜单。 曼德尔2014年的作品《第十一站》备受瞩目，不仅被美国亚马逊网站列为当年度最佳科幻图书，而且入围了美国国家图书奖的决选名单，并在2015年夺得了由英国科幻协会颁发的阿瑟·C.克拉克奖。这部作品也将改编成电影登上大银幕。

In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of ...(展开全部)

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabar...(展开全部)

In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of ...(展开全部)

A WORLD INSIDE All Hiroto has ever known is a life on a tiny coastal speck of Japan. Much of the country has been swallowed by Yokohama Station, a mysterious, ever-growing series of buildings that's been around for as long as anyone can remember. The few who live outside its many entrances have never seen Inside and know only rumors and legends of the station's interior. That a...(展开全部)