〔美〕格里高利•本福德，著名物理学家和天文学家，加州大学河湾分校物理学教授，剑桥大学客座教授，英国皇家天文学会会员，从事天文物理和等离子物理领域里的理论和实验研究。他是我们时代最优秀的硬科幻作家之一，他的独特的风格使他多次获奖，包括星云奖（《时间景象》）、约翰•坎贝尔纪念奖和澳大利亚狄特玛奖。他有11部小说，包括《伟大的天空河》《光潮》《穿越太阳海》，《彗性的心脏》（与大卫•布林合写），《在黑夜的海洋里》《狂暴的海湾》《驶向光明的永恒》，还有短篇小说集《在异己的人里》。

1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world-threatening catastrophe averted.

1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world-threatening catastrophe averted.

Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It's 1962, an...(展开全部)

小说描写一批20世纪90年代末的科学家，在全球人口严重过剩和生态危机非常恐怖的时代中，设想如何采纳时空技术向过去发送超光速粒子信息，寻求已逝去的科学家帮助人类拯救未来地球的故事。小说中，一批英国当代物理学家最终将超光速粒子束发射到地球曾经于20世纪60年代存在的美国位置，并成功地进行了向已逝过去科学家的通讯。小说设想了相隔近30年的两代物理学家利用超光速粒子进行对话，描述他们拯救地球和人类、清除外太空希特勒魔影的种种科学幻想。

小说描写一批20世纪90年代末的科学家，在全球人口严重过剩和生态危机非常恐怖的时代中，设想如何采纳时空技术向过去发送超光速粒子信息，寻求已逝去的科学家帮助人类拯救未来地球的故事。小说中，一批英国当代物理学家最终将超光速粒子束发射到地球曾经于20世纪60年代存在的美国位置，并成功地进行了向已逝过去科学家的通讯。小说设想了相隔近30年的两代物理学家利用超光速粒子进行对话，描述他们拯救地球和人类、清除外太空希特勒魔影的种种科学幻想。

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)