《黑太阳》的故事始于最后一艘“太空播种计划”飞船即将离开地球之际。这艘量子飞船将带着最后一群冒险家以波态的方式跨越广漠的宇宙星空，直到遇到足够大的引力使它恢复为正常的物态。人们原本想通过“太空播种计划”将文明的火种洒遍星宇，可是这一伟大计划的倡导者――太空播种组织，却已经被妄自尊大的赫尔曼・斯特克和他庸俗的助手欣奇弄得一塌糊涂。发射场外，一群极端环境保护主义者想方设法阻止飞船升空。他们卖通飞船的安检主管吉那斯・罗克，在飞船上安装了一枚炸弹。 然而，并不是所有人都想终止“太空播种计划”。卡洛斯・蒙德拉贡，一个年轻的墨西哥非法移民，计算机高手，怀着他的星际旅行之梦潜入飞船，成了一名偷渡者。斯特克和欣奇在飞船起飞的最后几分钟接管了飞船。飞船发射升空，罗克的炸弹也被拆除。不知过了多少时间，量子飞船在一个已经死亡的恒星附近恢复成常态。醒来的人们发现，这颗恒星只...(展开全部)

《黑太阳》的故事始于最后一艘“太空播种计划”飞船即将离开地球之际。这艘量子飞船将带着最后一群冒险家以波态的方式跨越广漠的宇宙星空，直到遇到足够大的引力使它恢复为正常的物态。人们原本想通过“太空播种计划”将文明的火种洒遍星宇，可是这一伟大计划的倡导者――太空播种组织，却已经被妄自尊大的赫尔曼・斯特克和他庸俗的助手欣奇弄得一塌糊涂。发射场外，一群极端环境保护主义者想方设法阻止飞船升空。他们卖通飞船的安检主管吉那斯・罗克，在飞船上安装了一枚炸弹。 然而，并不是所有人都想终止“太空播种计划”。卡洛斯・蒙德拉贡，一个年轻的墨西哥非法移民，计算机高手，怀着他的星际旅行之梦潜入飞船，成了一名偷渡者。斯特克和欣奇在飞船起飞的最后几分钟接管了飞船。飞船发射升空，罗克的炸弹也被拆除。不知过了多少时间，量子飞船在一个已经死亡的恒星附近恢复成常态。醒来的人们发现，这颗恒星只...(展开全部)

In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachme...(展开全部)

In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachme...(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)

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)

Its three protagonists--Anne Welles, the uptight-but-full-of-a-strange-yearning New England beauty; Neely O'Hara, the Judy Garland á clef; and Jennifer North, who is sort of the Marilyn Monroe á clef and also sort of the Brigitte Bardot á clef but mainly sort of the least realized character in the book--all spend most of the novel with what they want excruciatingly just o...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)