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。

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(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)

"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)

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

丹尼·华莱士（Danny Wallace），英国著名的畅销作家、电影制片人、演员、电台和电视台节目主持人。擅长都市温情题材，他的作品被称为现代“人间喜剧”。 除与他人合著的作品外，他之前的多部独立创作的作品取得了巨大的成功，《Join Me》受到《书商》《每日邮报》等媒体的高度赞誉；《好好先生》被改编成电影，由好莱坞喜剧天王金·凯瑞主演，荣登北美周末票房榜冠军；第三部作品《这样的朋友》被《书商》杂志称为“又一部喜剧大作”，电影版权已售米拉麦克斯电影公司…… 《GQ》杂志称他为“英国了不起的写作天才之一”，他在英国男性时尚杂志《ShortList》上的专栏每周有超过130万的读者，是2011年英国期刊协会专栏作家。他还主持着一档非常受欢迎的晨间节目。 最新作品《奇遇夏洛特街》甫一出版即售15国版权，电影版权已售著名的电影公司Working Title（...(展开全部)