In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated. Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·斯特罗斯：布莱福德大学修计算机科学硕士。出生在英格兰北端邻近苏格兰的利兹，儿时便立志当科幻作家。八年间出版了十六本长篇小说。作品屡次入围雨果奖、英伦科幻协会奖、约翰·坎贝尔纪念奖及轨迹奖等众多科幻大奖。 《奇点天空》于2003年出版后入围了2004年雨果奖，在轨迹奖年度排名第七，也在译成日文后入围日本星云赏。 . 寇乐眉：译作多署名denovo。海外科学工作者，闲来读书写字，爬山潜水，溜冰滑雪，无一不好而无一能精。一生做事三心二意蜻蜓点水，唯有科幻翻译竟然兢兢业业坚持至今，只能用一个词解释——有爱！ . 郭泽，业余翻译爱好者，尤喜科幻。 已出版幻想类翻译作品：长篇《西塔甘达》、《孤儿远征军》、《提升之战》、《雪崩》等；中短篇《冰龙》、《卡米洛特的最后一个卫士》《时代之子》。

Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been perfected and groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence have been made. But is this a great step forward for humanity--or its ultimate downfall?

Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been perfected and groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence have been made. But is this a great step forward for humanity--or its ultimate downfall?

In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated. Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·斯特罗斯：布莱福德大学修计算机科学硕士。出生在英格兰北端邻近苏格兰的利兹，儿时便立志当科幻作家。八年间出版了十六本长篇小说。作品屡次入围雨果奖、英伦科幻协会奖、约翰·坎贝尔纪念奖及轨迹奖等众多科幻大奖。 《奇点天空》于2003年出版后入围了2004年雨果奖，在轨迹奖年度排名第七，也在译成日文后入围日本星云赏。 . 寇乐眉：译作多署名denovo。海外科学工作者，闲来读书写字，爬山潜水，溜冰滑雪，无一不好而无一能精。一生做事三心二意蜻蜓点水，唯有科幻翻译竟然兢兢业业坚持至今，只能用一个词解释——有爱！ . 郭泽，业余翻译爱好者，尤喜科幻。 已出版幻想类翻译作品：长篇《西塔甘达》、《孤儿远征军》、《提升之战》、《雪崩》等；中短篇《冰龙》、《卡米洛特的最后一个卫士》《时代之子》。

In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project in the middle of the Cold War. At the beginning of Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity, Ermanno Ismani, an unassuming university professor, is summoned by the minister of defense to acc...(展开全部)

A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he b...(展开全部)

A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he b...(展开全部)

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.  To this strange and provocative planet comes ...(展开全部)