Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, t...(展开全部)

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, t...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine....(展开全部)

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutio...(展开全部)

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutio...(展开全部)

这是一本关于太空、黑洞和微观宇宙的科幻小说集，包括16篇作品：追赶太阳、冲击参数、穿越黑暗、通过虫洞进出黑洞、遭遇太空海盗等。其中《在太阳下漫步》曾被《科幻世界》翻译成中文，题为《追赶太阳》，描写一位在月球上探险的科学家由于失去了与飞船的联系，为了生存不得不在月球上追赶太阳以求生存。小说发表后受到中国读者的广泛欢迎，《科幻世界》还为此邀请作者到北京和成都与读者见面，被中国读者称为“火星叔叔兰迪斯”，掀起了一股“火星叔叔热”。《穿越黑暗》描述了科学家缩小成原子，穿越黑洞进入以太的惊险故事。《黄蜂的奇特习性》描述福尔莫斯和华生联手破获外星人把受精卵植入伦敦女人体内借胎发肓的阴谋故事。等等。

这是一本关于太空、黑洞和微观宇宙的科幻小说集，包括16篇作品：追赶太阳、冲击参数、穿越黑暗、通过虫洞进出黑洞、遭遇太空海盗等。其中《在太阳下漫步》曾被《科幻世界》翻译成中文，题为《追赶太阳》，描写一位在月球上探险的科学家由于失去了与飞船的联系，为了生存不得不在月球上追赶太阳以求生存。小说发表后受到中国读者的广泛欢迎，《科幻世界》还为此邀请作者到北京和成都与读者见面，被中国读者称为“火星叔叔兰迪斯”，掀起了一股“火星叔叔热”。《穿越黑暗》描述了科学家缩小成原子，穿越黑洞进入以太的惊险故事。《黄蜂的奇特习性》描述福尔莫斯和华生联手破获外星人把受精卵植入伦敦女人体内借胎发肓的阴谋故事。等等。

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s ha...(展开全部)