Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as ...(展开全部)

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as ...(展开全部)

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of s...(展开全部)

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

简介：任务：SCP物品对世界安全是一种显著的威胁。运作于世界各地的机构，则从地外生物、异次元世界和外层空间中保持人类的独立自主。在过去人类一直被这些异常的物品和相似的事物随意玩弄，但现在，人类的发展来到了一个历史转折点，使我们完全有能力控制和隔离这些违反自然法则的事物。目标：寻找超自然事物并基于其原理发展新科技。收容有潜在威胁的事物。发展安全措施来应对未来出现的危险事物。寻找，扣留，消灭任何阻止我们完成上述目标的人或事物。以人类之名，为文明唱响颂歌，以吾之名，谱写勇气之诗，我们没有退路，我们无法善终，我们为了基金会而战，我们为了文明而战。——Special Containment Procedures Foundation

简介：任务：SCP物品对世界安全是一种显著的威胁。运作于世界各地的机构，则从地外生物、异次元世界和外层空间中保持人类的独立自主。在过去人类一直被这些异常的物品和相似的事物随意玩弄，但现在，人类的发展来到了一个历史转折点，使我们完全有能力控制和隔离这些违反自然法则的事物。目标：寻找超自然事物并基于其原理发展新科技。收容有潜在威胁的事物。发展安全措施来应对未来出现的危险事物。寻找，扣留，消灭任何阻止我们完成上述目标的人或事物。以人类之名，为文明唱响颂歌，以吾之名，谱写勇气之诗，我们没有退路，我们无法善终，我们为了基金会而战，我们为了文明而战。——Special Containment Procedures Foundation

托马斯•品钦（Thomas Pynchon） 当代文学巨擘，被哈罗德•布鲁姆称作美国当代最重要的四位作家之一，屡次入列诺贝尔文学奖候选名单。 品钦对个人生活讳莫如深，成名后深居简出，早年的照片和档案也离奇消失，引发了媒体、学界和书迷对其生活的狂热考证。作品包含着丰富的意旨、风格和主题，通过迷宫式的叙事和对自然科学、前沿科技、高等数学、现代物理等领域的概念借用，描绘了美国光怪陆离的社会全景，道出了现代社会中人类的艰难处境，展现了鬼才品钦诡谲的视角，以及对黑色幽默、犯罪悬疑、侦探等元素的娴熟运用。 其代表作《万有引力之虹》被评论家称为借助神力完成的大百科全书式作品，曾获美国全国图书奖，但拒绝领奖。亦著有《拍卖第四十九批》《V》《葡萄园》等重要作品。 蒋怡 毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的...(展开全部)