In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across. When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time f...(展开全部)

彼得·汉密尔顿是英国当代最为著名的科幻作家之一，以写作太空歌剧著称。他的代表作有多卷本太空歌剧“联邦系列”“虚空三部曲”“夜之曙三部曲”等，以及单行本小说《龙堕》和《圣天秤星》。 汉密尔顿的作品广受认可，他多次获得雨果奖、克拉克奖、英伦科幻奖等知名科幻奖项提名，并曾于2000年荣获英伦科幻奖最佳短篇小说奖。他的短篇小说《桑尼的优势》还被改编为高口碑美剧《爱，死亡和机器人》第一季的首集。

Set in the twenty-fourth century, this epic novel of a human-extraterrestrial war engineered by an unknown omniscient being is by the bestselling author of The Reality Dysfunction and Fallen Dragon.

Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton’s bestselling fiction—powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills—has also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, philosophically stimulating: the nov...(展开全部)

The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus s...(展开全部)

The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus s...(展开全部)

When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in o...(展开全部)

迈克尔•哈特（Michael Hardt, 1960-），著名的意大利籍政治理论与政治哲学家，马克思主义社会学家和政治哲学家，目前任教于杜克大学，著有《颠覆的政治：21世纪的宣言》、《愤怒的异类：斯宾诺莎的形而上学和政治学》等。 安东尼奥•奈格里（Antonio Negri, 1933-），意大利帕多瓦大学教授，颇具传奇色彩的马克思主义理论家与活动家。奈格里著作颇丰，不仅发展了马克思主义哲学与政治经济学，而且还在某种程度上复兴了斯宾诺莎研究。

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secr...(展开全部)

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secr...(展开全部)