康妮·威利斯（Connie Willis） 美国科幻名家，1945年出生于美国科罗拉多州丹佛市。1967年毕业于北科罗拉多大学。 1979年，康妮·威利斯凭借《阳光下的黛西》首次获得雨果奖提名。1982年，她获得国家艺术基金会的支持，开启全职写作生涯。同年，凭借《烈火长空》获得雨果奖和星云奖。 康妮·威利斯共获得十一次雨果奖、七次星云奖，还多次斩获轨迹奖、坎贝尔纪念奖、克拉克奖等各种核心科幻奖项。2009年，康妮·威利斯入选“科幻名人堂”。2012年，获“达蒙·奈特纪念大师奖”，成为全世界第二十八位公认的“科幻大师”。 康妮·威利斯的小说以强调故事性而闻名，笔调诙谐、光怪陆离，常令读者在细细咂摸之后，心领神会，莞尔而笑。

Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball comedy to profound tragedy, combining dazzling plot twists, cutting-edge ...(展开全部)

Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball comedy to profound tragedy, combining dazzling plot twists, cutting-edge ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•鲍德温（1924—1987），美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人、剧作家和社会活动家，生于纽约哈莱姆区，童年坎坷，生父有毒瘾问题，后母亲嫁给牧师大卫·鲍德温，又生育8个孩子。 1938年，受其严苛的继父的影响，14岁的鲍德温成为了哈莱姆地区的一名牧师。17岁时，鲍德温决定脱离教会。19岁生日那天，其继父去世，当天哈莱姆地区也发生了暴动。 1948年，对美国的种族现实极度失望的鲍德温选择移居法国。1953年，鲍德温出版了带有很强的自传色彩的处女作《向苍天呼吁》。此后的三十年里，他陆续出版了《 土生子札记》《乔万尼的房间》《另一个国度》《下一次将是烈火》《告诉我火车开走了多久》《如果比尔街会说话》等著名作品。 1957年，鲍德温回到美国，投入当时如火如荼的黑人解放运动。1987年12月1日， 鲍德温因肺癌在法国去世。他一生著有六部长篇小说、四部剧本、十...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•鲍德温（1924—1987），美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人、剧作家和社会活动家，生于纽约哈莱姆区，童年坎坷，生父有毒瘾问题，后母亲嫁给牧师大卫·鲍德温，又生育8个孩子。 1938年，受其严苛的继父的影响，14岁的鲍德温成为了哈莱姆地区的一名牧师。17岁时，鲍德温决定脱离教会。19岁生日那天，其继父去世，当天哈莱姆地区也发生了暴动。 1948年，对美国的种族现实极度失望的鲍德温选择移居法国。1953年，鲍德温出版了带有很强的自传色彩的处女作《向苍天呼吁》。此后的三十年里，他陆续出版了《 土生子札记》《乔万尼的房间》《另一个国度》《下一次将是烈火》《告诉我火车开走了多久》《如果比尔街会说话》等著名作品。 1957年，鲍德温回到美国，投入当时如火如荼的黑人解放运动。1987年12月1日， 鲍德温因肺癌在法国去世。他一生著有六部长篇小说、四部剧本、十...(展开全部)

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "l...(展开全部)

At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice--to both the individual and America at large--The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature. It remains as relevant today, widely read in classrooms ...(展开全部)

Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world.

The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that o...(展开全部)

Fans have fallen in love with Liz Climo's charmingly quirky animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World of Liz Climo—a place where porcupines, anteaters, and grizzly bears all grapple with everyday life with wit and humor. Now Liz returns with a book devoted to friendship. Chapter themes include “Old Friends,” “New Friends,” “Unlikely Friends,” and “Friends wit...(展开全部)