After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep...(展开全部)

This is science fiction on the grandest of scales - a cast of thousands set across hundreds of years and in the farthest reaches of Human Space. A prequel to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep, this new novel is epic in scope and a thoroughly riveting read. A Deepness In the Sky is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. Bo...(展开全部)

This is science fiction on the grandest of scales - a cast of thousands set across hundreds of years and in the farthest reaches of Human Space. A prequel to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep, this new novel is epic in scope and a thoroughly riveting read. A Deepness In the Sky is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. B...(展开全部)

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep...(展开全部)

作者簡介 片惠英（편혜영） 一九七二年生於韓國首爾，漢陽大學韓國語文學系畢業。二○○○年以第一篇短篇小說處女作《抖落露珠》（SHAKING OFF DEW）獲得《首爾新聞報》年度春季文學獎。作品在韓國文學界甚至世界文壇都受到極大的關注，二○○八年諾貝爾文學獎獲得者、法國作家勒•克萊齊奧（Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio）對她的作品稱讚有加。 她共出版過四本短篇小說集，《蜀葵花園》（AOI GARDEN）、《去狗窩》（TO THE KENNELS）、《黃昏的求愛》（EVENING COURTSHIP）以及《夜晚流逝》（A NIGHT IS PASSING BY）。兩本長篇小說《灰燼與猩紅》（ASHES AND RED）及《他們去向西方森林》（THEY WENT TO THE FOREST IN THE WEST） 二○一七年曾來...(展开全部)

Sun and his wife, the moon, lived on Earth and built a large house so that the water people could visit. But so many poured in that they were forced to move to the sky.

"An African folktale is interpreted with originality and harmony." Booklist, ALA

Sun and his wife, the moon, lived on Earth and built a large house so that the water people could visit. But so many poured in that they were forced to move to the sky.

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new ...(展开全部)

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it’s the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with grea...(展开全部)