保罗·巴奇加卢皮（1972~），美国当代科幻界引人瞩目的新秀作家，"雨果奖""星云奖""轨迹奖"和"斯特金奖"等诸多奖项的宠儿。他的一部长篇小说《发条女孩》（2009）就赢得了包括"雨果奖""星云奖"和"轨迹奖"在内的几乎所有幻想文学类大奖，并被《时代》杂志评为年度"优佳十部长篇小说"之一。他笔下的未来，散发着文明凋敝衰败的气息，从横扫各大科幻奖项的《发条女孩》，到这本短篇小说合集，莫不如是。细细品读，读者便会发现，导致文明日薄西山的，正是人类自己，或者说"人性"本身。 因为大学主修东亚研究，毕业后又在中国、泰国等地旅居过一段时间，巴奇加卢皮的作品往往带有浓厚的东方元素，如本书收录的《黄卡人》和《卡路里人》，就与东方背景的《发条女孩》同享一个世界观。

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo's wo...(展开全部)

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work,...(展开全部)

保罗·巴奇加卢皮（1972~），美国当代科幻界引人瞩目的新秀作家，"雨果奖""星云奖""轨迹奖"和"斯特金奖"等诸多奖项的宠儿。他的一部长篇小说《发条女孩》（2009）就赢得了包括"雨果奖""星云奖"和"轨迹奖"在内的几乎所有幻想文学类大奖，并被《时代》杂志评为年度"优佳十部长篇小说"之一。他笔下的未来，散发着文明凋敝衰败的气息，从横扫各大科幻奖项的《发条女孩》，到这本短篇小说合集，莫不如是。细细品读，读者便会发现，导致文明日薄西山的，正是人类自己，或者说"人性"本身。 因为大学主修东亚研究，毕业后又在中国、泰国等地旅居过一段时间，巴奇加卢皮的作品往往带有浓厚的东方元素，如本书收录的《黄卡人》和《卡路里人》，就与东方背景的《发条女孩》同享一个世界观。

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work,...(展开全部)

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo's wo...(展开全部)

A journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth. Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The ancient Egyptians treated it with reverence, mummifying it separately from the body so that the soul inside it could be weighed. Aristotle believed...(展开全部)

A journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth. Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The ancient Egyptians treated it with reverence, mummifying it separately from the body so that the soul inside it could be weighed. Aristotle believed...(展开全部)

麗莎．瑪格內莉（Lisa Margonelli） 傑出記者與作家。目前是新美國基金會的爾灣會員，曾為《舊金山記事報》《連線雜誌》《商業2.0雜誌》《發現》《Jane》雜誌撰文，獲頒日舞影展學院獎學金，以及北加州職業記者協會頒發的傑出新聞工作獎。目前住在加州奧克蘭。

In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do exper-iments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have something to do with the origins of experimental sci-ence? Schaffer and Shapin believed it does. Focusing on the debates between Boyle and his archcritic Thomas Hobbes over the a...(展开全部)