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?

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》。

雷·库兹韦尔他曾发明了盲人阅读机、音乐合成器和语音识别系统。为此他获得许多奖项：狄克森奖、卡耐基梅隆科学奖。1988年，麻省理工学院提名他为“当年杰出发明家“。他曾获9项名誉博士学位，2次总统荣誉奖。库兹韦尔也是一名成功的企业家，他用他的发明创办了自己的企业，开发出多项造福人类的高科技产品。库兹韦尔是多部畅销书的作者。他1990年出版的《智能机器的时代》成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王，该书获得了美国出版协会“最优秀的计算机科学著作”奖。 库兹韦尔现任奇点大学校长。

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)

The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances. However, as Derek Attridge argues in this outstanding and acclaimed ...(展开全部)

For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and litera...(展开全部)

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)