In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species "A wondrous, visionary work." --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunte...(展开全部)

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal econ...(展开全部)

Humanity's ancient dream of immortality is on the verge of becoming reality in the challenging new novel from erstwhile William Gibson (see below) collaborator Sterling (Heavy Weather, 1994, etc.). In Sterling's late 21st century, advances in cybernetics, nano- and virtual technology and medicine have transformed Earth into a near paradise. Vice and illness still exist, but the...(展开全部)

布鲁斯·斯特林（1954— ） 美国著名科幻小说家，赛博朋克文学运动领军人物，雨果奖、阿瑟·克拉克奖、约翰·W.坎贝尔纪念奖等重要科幻文学奖项得主。斯特林主要创作赛博朋克科幻小说，他因在赛博朋克领域的杰出贡献而被冠以“布鲁斯主席”的称号。代表作品除本书《圣火》外，还有《差分机》《分裂矩阵》《网络岛》《全球大脑》等。 他创办的科幻史上重要杂志《廉价真理》为一众赛博朋克风格作家提供了出版阵地，成为世界科幻文学界里程碑式事件，直接关系到赛博朋克文化的成型与未来发展的方向。科幻文学经典作品——威廉·吉布森《神经漫游者》就刊载在此杂志的创刊号上。

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]传说神圣之血一族是压制妖魔的神的使者，神武四麒麟守护着他们。然而在几十年前，随着月光女神死于非命，四麒麟全部失踪。追回四麒麟、寻找月光女神的死因、破坏背叛者的阴谋……成为了候补继承者的首要任务。在继承人候补离开神圣一族、留在人间之时，又有什...

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

Book Description The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure. An ingenio...(展开全部)