约翰·瓦利（John Varley），美国著名科幻作家，1947年出生于美国得州奥斯汀市，毕业于密歇根州立大学，主修物理。瓦利1974年出道即一鸣惊人，被誉为美国20世纪70年代最为成功的科幻作家。有评论称“瓦利就像一个野人般突然出现在科幻小说的舞台上，满脑子都是大胆的想象、新奇的观点和刺激的情节”。 瓦利风格独特，长篇作品是畅销榜常客，中篇作品更是被誉为科幻小说中的“艺术品”。他曾三获雨果奖，两获星云奖，获其他各种奖项和提名数十次，作品被翻译成二十几种语言，广受读者喜爱。代表作有“八星宇宙”系列中的《钢铁海滩》《蛇夫座热线》《按回车键》等，多以太阳系为场景，展示近未来的人类社会；此外还有“泰坦”系列、“雷与电”系列等。

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard t...(展开全部)

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard t...(展开全部)

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around t...(展开全部)

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them ...(展开全部)

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and i...(展开全部)

隨著電腦日趨微小化，線路如同紡紗、基盤則比紙張還要輕薄。於是，服飾進化成可隨身穿著的電腦。法克斯渴望能成為一流的服裝設計師，而在一間小裁縫店擔任學徒。但是，某日庫斯達師傅病倒，突然需要一筆龐大的醫藥費。此時一名自稱是他雙胞胎姊姊的少女出現在法克斯面前。情急之下，他們兩人聯手參加聯盟競賽「伸展擂台」，嘗試奪下冠軍，贏取巨額獎金…… ……

Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone’s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But seni...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by Richard Ford "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William Styron From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beau...(展开全部)

From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as t...(展开全部)