罗伯特·索耶是加拿大最有影响力的科幻作家。1960年出生于渥太华。曾获雨果奖、星云奖、曙光奖等诸多奖项。本书是其第6部小说，获得1995年星云奖。 至今已出版17部长篇科幻小说，屡获雨果奖、星云奖等多种科幻奖项，被誉为加拿大科幻教长。索耶的科幻小说涉及多种主题，从电脑狂魔、恐龙复活、时间旅行，到平行时空、太空侦探，想像奇伟，异彩纷呈。索耶的代表作除本书外，还包括《计算中的上帝》、《终极实验》、《星丛》、《原始人类》和《混血》等。

在《達文西密碼》（The Da Vinci Code）還未竄上暢銷榜之前，Dan Brown的舊作一直不能算是熱門書。Angles & Demons可以說是《達文西密碼》的前傳，也是他所有的書中科幻味最重的一本。他的主角也就是出現在《達文西密碼》中的符號學家蘭登，只不過蘭登這次要破的案子，可不是跟名畫有關的，而是瑞典實驗室的一位頂尖的物理學家被謀殺，他的突破性成果——一個能量可與核能相比的物質被偷，抽絲剝繭竟然發現這是一樁與梵蒂崗有關的陰謀……

波丽•邓巴（Polly Dunbar）今日英国人气儿童插画家和作家。16岁就出版了两本著作。后来不断努力，被推选为英国十大插画家之一。这位才女还是Long Nose Puppets剧团的创办人，看剧团的名字就知道，她还喜欢制作木偶。

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly sets his novels of suspense against a world divided by race, politics, money, and the media. Here he thrusts Detective Harry Bosch on a harrowing journey into a high-profile murder case--and darkness... An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But ...(展开全部)

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planeta (TM)s government put down a bloody revolution.

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planeta (TM)s government put down a bloody revolution.

"Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. "Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye,...(展开全部)

The classic novel from the definitive voice of the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels is the story of Kerouac's life just before the publication of On the Road--as told through his fictional self--Jack Duluoz. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it.

"Desolation Angels" is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California ...(展开全部)

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