William Olaf Stapledon was born in 1886 and educated at Abbotsholme School, Balliol College,Oxford,and Liverpool Univesity.After spending eighteen months with a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said,he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English literature and industrial history. He served in France with the Friend's Ambulance Unit from 1915 to 1919.He subseq...(展开全部)

"Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written" Arthur C. Clarke

Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses the birth and death of civilizations. As the scope of his experiences expands...(展开全部)

A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller by a ';master of suspense' (Mary Higgins Clark). Between jobs and relationships, Manhattan illust

理查德·鲍尔斯（1957— ）　美国小说家，曾就读于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系，后获文学硕士学位。他兴趣广泛，博览群书，涉猎考古学、海洋学、历史、社会学、政治学、美学、医学、音乐等领域。 鲍尔斯是在电视和电脑时代出生的第一代人的代言人，被誉为美国文坛在后品钦时代涌现的最重要、最令人钦佩的作家之一。他的小说致力于探索现代科学技术的影响，呈现出鲜明的后现代主义小说的特点，把词汇上的艺术鉴赏力和结构上的大胆结合得令人眼花缭乱。他大都采用多角度平行叙事的表现手法，以对照不同人物的性格，增加故事的悬念和复杂性，并提醒读者：我们从未如此紧密地联系在一起，同时又从未如此孤单。此外，他还注重事实与虚构相结合，并通过不确定性的语言符号系统构建虚拟世界，以揭示现实世界的零散和混乱。鲍尔斯获得过各种奖项二十多次。

在线阅读本书 Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" ( Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometow...(展开全部)

A literary page-turner about one manas macabre ambition to create lifeaand secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant childrenathree identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte,...(展开全部)

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