Dirk t'Larien journeys to the planet Worlorn, site of the great Festival of Worlds, and, in the desolate twilight descending on the once bright planet, struggles to save his former lover, Gwen, from an alien nobleman. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

诺贝特•埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias, 1897—1990），德裔社会学家，20世纪百科全书式人物，被誉为“21世纪的社会学家”。他出生在当时西里西亚地区的布雷斯劳（现称弗罗茨瓦夫，现属波兰）的一个犹太富商家庭，早年曾兼修医学与哲学，取得博士学位后转攻社会学，先后师从韦伯和曼海姆。纳粹上台后，他先是流亡巴黎，后赴英国继续学术研究。1939年，他的名著《文明的进程》首次出版。1940年，他曾由于德国人身份而被关入拘留营八个月时间。战后，他在英国、德国、荷兰等地的院校任教。他是反思性历史社会学家的代表，通过自我反思的追问来理解现代性，致力于细致的经验研究和长时段历史研究，代表作还有《宫廷社会》《个体的社会》《莫扎特的成败》《符号理论》等。 译者：索马里，曾供职于《GQ智族》《彭博商业周刊》，现为99读书人副总编辑，译有《一个自杀者的传说》《记忆之...(展开全部)

Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth, edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin, in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. Here are twenty-two brand-new adventures set in the world of Jack Vance's greatest novel. A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A million cities have fallen ...(展开全部)

乔治·R.R.马丁，1948年出生于美国，世界级奇幻大师。其著名小说包括史诗奇幻经典之作“冰与火之歌”系列，《血与火：坦格利安王朝史》《冰与火之歌的世界》等。迄今为止，他以获保罗四尊雨果奖、两尊星云奖、一尊世界奇幻文学终身成就奖在内的无数奖项。2011年，美国《时代周刊》将马丁评为“全世界最有影响力的一百位人物”之一，肯定了乔治·R.R.马丁在欧美文坛的至尊地位。 加德纳·多佐伊斯曾担任《阿西莫夫科幻小说》编辑近二十年，也是“年度最佳科幻”系列的编辑，凭此系列他已赢得二十次轨迹奖年度最佳选集奖，称谓迄今为止最成功的科幻编辑。此外，他还赢得了十五次雨果奖年度最佳编辑奖，并以自己的短篇作品赢得了两次星云奖及一次侧向奖。

Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A million cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls, dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain to the long history of our wor...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

杰克·万斯 生于1916年，少年时代极不安分，修过采矿工程、物理学和新闻学，上商船做过水手。曲折的经历培养了他对大自然以及民间传说的感情，丰富了他的人生阅历，为他以后的文学创作打下了坚实的基础。 杰克·万斯是标准的多栖作家，在奇幻和科幻领域都取得了巨大的成就。他的小说语言瑰丽，想象超群，尤其在奇幻设定方面更是大胆创新，成为后来许多作家竞相模仿的对象。 万斯一生获奖无数，包括雨果奖、星云奖和世界奇幻奖。1997年美国科幻作家协会授予他大师奖，使其成为美国幻想文学史上继罗伯特·海因莱因、艾萨克·阿西莫夫等巨星级作家之后的第十五位大师。 读者现在看到的这部《濒死的地球》是万斯最著名的作品，历来被公认为末世奇幻/科幻小说的第一经典。

Book Description David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York College, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twentyfour, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years. Since the sexual revolution of the 196...(展开全部)

"The Croods" takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodaceous period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. "The Art of The Croods" traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of concept art, character sketches, storyboards and digital paintings, and key talen...(展开全部)

The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge-who cheated their clients out of millions un...(展开全部)