勒克莱齐奥，一九四〇年生于法国尼斯，一九六三年出版第一部小说《诉讼笔录》，并获得雷诺多文学奖。至今已出版四十多部作品，包括小说、随笔、翻译等。一九八〇年，勒克莱齐奥以小说《沙漠》获得保尔•莫朗文学奖。一九九四年，他在法国《读书》杂志一次读者调查中，被评选为当代最伟大的法语作家之一。 二〇〇八年，勒克莱齐奥荣获诺贝尔文学奖。

刘慈欣，六十年代生人，祖籍河南，山西阳泉长大，高级工程师，现在山西娘子关电厂工作。上世纪九十年代末开始发表作品，第一篇发表作品为短篇小说《鲸歌》。目前为中国科普作家协会会员，被誉为中国科幻的领军人物。 刘慈欣成功地将极端的空灵和厚重的现实结合起来，同时注重表现科学的内涵和美感，努力创造出一种具有中国特色的科幻文学样式。其作品因宏伟大气、想像绚丽而获得广泛赞誉，多次获得中国科幻银河奖。

[美]汤姆·哈特（Tom Hart） 美国艾斯纳大奖提名漫画家。他曾在佛罗里达大学和纽约视觉艺术学院任教长达10年，现在是佛罗里达的盖恩斯维尔一家漫画和图像小说工作室的执行董事。他也是《哈奇·欧文系列》（The Collected Hutch Owen）图像小说的作者，《哈奇·欧文系列》曾在2000年被艾斯纳大奖提名。目前汤姆和妻子莉拉以及女儿茉莉·罗斯住在一起。

Lightning is a captivating fictionalized biography of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written by "the master magician of the contemporary French novel" ( The Washington Post ). The book traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic at the a...(展开全部)

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explo...(展开全部)

Audre Lorde is a revolutionary Black feminist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Her first volume of poetry, The First Cities (1968), was publi...(展开全部)