A literary page-turner about one manas macabre ambition to create lifeaand secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant childrenathree identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte,...(展开全部)

理查德·鲍尔斯（1957— ）　美国小说家，曾就读于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系，后获文学硕士学位。他兴趣广泛，博览群书，涉猎考古学、海洋学、历史、社会学、政治学、美学、医学、音乐等领域。 鲍尔斯是在电视和电脑时代出生的第一代人的代言人，被誉为美国文坛在后品钦时代涌现的最重要、最令人钦佩的作家之一。他的小说致力于探索现代科学技术的影响，呈现出鲜明的后现代主义小说的特点，把词汇上的艺术鉴赏力和结构上的大胆结合得令人眼花缭乱。他大都采用多角度平行叙事的表现手法，以对照不同人物的性格，增加故事的悬念和复杂性，并提醒读者：我们从未如此紧密地联系在一起，同时又从未如此孤单。此外，他还注重事实与虚构相结合，并通过不确定性的语言符号系统构建虚拟世界，以揭示现实世界的零散和混乱。鲍尔斯获得过各种奖项二十多次。

在线阅读本书 Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" ( Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometow...(展开全部)

Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games ...(展开全部)

Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event,...(展开全部)

Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Brilliant geneticist Silas Williams oversees U.S. selections for the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally...(展开全部)

特德·科斯玛特卡的诸多作品中，最为中国读者所熟悉的，是那篇以双缝实验为科幻内核的《观察者》。 大学主修生物与化学，父亲去世后辍学。之后几年从事过很多工作，比如动物园饲养员、化学实验室技术员、餐馆的洗碟工。最后，他在一家科研机构找到了一份稳定工作：操作电子显微镜。 以上这些工作，后来都成了他的创作素材。 他的作品多次被编入年度最佳科幻小说选集，被改编成舞台剧，入选过星云奖、斯特金奖、轨迹奖，获得过《阿西莫夫科幻杂志》读者选择奖。

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

苏珊·柯林斯（Suzanne•Collins）： 1991年就开始儿童电视剧创作。她为尼科罗登儿童台创作的《克拉丽莎都知道》《谢尔比·吴的神秘档案》系列剧，获得了艾美奖。畅销系列小说“地底纪事”（Underl and Chronicles）初试啼声即备受赞誉。“饥饿游戏”系列更成为其突破性的作品，第一部自2008年9月在美国出版以来，畅销不衰，佳评如潮，屡获大奖。 . 译者： 耿芳：邯郸人，现任中国传媒大学外国语学院副教授，长期从事英语语言教学，研究兴趣为英语语言文学，曾发表《简·爱与女性社会价值》《英汉诗歌中修辞的运用》等多篇论文，译著有《战争与和平——俄罗斯帝国》《饥饿游戏》。