安•莱基（Ann Leckie） 美国知名科幻小说作家。在《雷切帝国》出版前，她已发表过许多科幻短篇，并在美国科幻奇幻作家协会担任要职。 2002年，安•莱基开始撰写《雷切帝国》系列的初稿。2005年师从雨果奖、星云奖得主奥克塔维娅•巴特勒，并于2013年成功出版了她的首部科幻长篇小说《雷切帝国：正义号的觉醒》。该书一经面世便获得了整个科幻界的狂热追捧，成为当年名副其实的黑马，一举拿下了包括雨果奖、星云奖在内的多项科幻大奖。 随后两年，安•莱基完成了《雷切帝国》三部曲。该系列的后两部作品斩获了多个科幻至高奖项，其中《雷切帝国2：巨剑号的陨落》更是拿下了轨迹奖和英国科幻协会奖，并入选雨果奖终选名单。2017年，安•莱基推出《雷切帝国》外传《起源之地》，宣告“雷切宇宙”的完美收官。 如今，安•莱基与家人一起生活在圣路易斯。 想了解更多关于安•莱基的信息，...(展开全部)

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雷蒙德·布里格斯，1934年出生于英国伦敦南郊的一个工人家庭，15岁进入温布尔顿艺术学校，接受正规的艺术教育。作品丰富，曾两次获得凯特·格林威大奖，并获得过荷兰银画笔奖、英国弗朗西斯·威廉奖等多项大奖。作品被翻译成多种文字，并被改编成动画片。

"In a sequence of enchanting vignettes, Father Christmas makes careful preparations for his annual sleigh ride. . . . One of the most irresistible yuletide books to appear in many years."--Horn Book. A Kate Greenaway Medal Book.

Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today. The Father will be welcomed by people from a wide variety of disciplines, i...(展开全部)

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection ...(展开全部)

Like most of my novels ,See How They Run comes right out of my worst nightmares rathe than real life. Obviously, the United States boycotted the Moscow Olmpics in 1980. I ask the reader to folllow my alternate entry in this story

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection ...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)