The basis for the new Pirates of the Caribbean film starring Johnny Depp, On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from the start.

The basis for the new Pirates of the Caribbean film starring Johnny Depp, On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from the start.

提姆·鲍尔斯，当代科幻奇幻领域最具想象力的作家之一。1952年出生于美国纽约州布法罗市。曾两获世界奇幻奖，两获菲利普·狄克奖，三次提名星云奖，亦是国际恐怖协会奖得主。

The basis for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides film starring Johnny Depp, On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers's great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill-a-minute action that carries on from the start as it follows the exploits of John 'Jack Shandy' Chandagnac, who travels to the new world after the death of his puppeteer father ...(展开全部)

珍妮·迪斯基，毕业于伦敦大学，她的文章及作品定期刊载于《观察家报》及《伦敦书评》等报刊上，是个创作活跃的作家。《火车怪客环游美国》曾获得托马斯•库克旅行文学奖及J．R．阿克雷自传奖。 胡洲贤，台湾成功大学外国语文学系毕业，曾赴美国加州进修翻译。现专职翻译及创作。有《撒哈 拉》《背着冰箱去旅行》等多部译著。

In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television. Like...(展开全部)

小さな町で保安官をしているフランは、荷の護送をした帰り道、馬に死なれてしまう。水もなしに荒野を歩いて帰る。それは命の危機に瀕（ルビ・ひん）したあまりにも無謀なことだっった。三日目、意識を失いかけた彼は言葉も容姿も異なるネイティブのトトに助けられる。友好関係にない二人だったが、トトはフランを町まで導いてくれた。礼も言えずに別れてしまい、フランはトトのことが気にかかるが──。

Nancy Kress, one of the leading writers of science fiction today, has written a number of provocative and award-winning stories and novels. But it is with the Beggars trilogy that she has reached the pinnacle of her success. Developed out of her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," the trilogy was launched with <i>Beggars in Spain</i><b> </b>(1993), also a...(展开全部)

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its ...(展开全部)