On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to...(展开全部)

When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone. "In the Wake" is the story of Arvid's first steps toward resuming that life, of his g...(展开全部)

Arvid has lost his parents and his two younger brothers in a ferry accident. Only he and his brother are left alive. The novel he is writing about his father is stalled, the grief and guilt he feels at having survived are too overwhelming. It is as though Arvid has become dislocated from the flow of life. His only human contact is with his Kurdish neighbour, and a woman whom he...(展开全部)

"One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation"("SF Site") comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web's awakening. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math-and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigat...(展开全部)

WWW:WAKE During his decades-spanning career, award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer has "undoubtedly cemented his reputation as one of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation" (SF Site). Now he adds to his impressive body of work with an imaginative and mind-blowing new trilogy of the web — and its awakening ... Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at...(展开全部)

"One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation"("SF Site") comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web's awakening. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math-and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigat...(展开全部)

WWW:WAKE During his decades-spanning career, award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer has "undoubtedly cemented his reputation as one of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation" (SF Site). Now he adds to his impressive body of work with an imaginative and mind-blowing new trilogy of the web — and its awakening ... Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at...(展开全部)

A little baby sleeps through everything from a beeping car and a barking dog to a ringing telephone, but when a tiny buzzing fly disturbs his slumber, the baby cannot be lulled back to sleep by anything but a kiss by his big sister.

羅伯特．索耶Robert J. Sawyer 星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎得主 加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一 史上只有七位作家得過全部科幻最高獎項星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎，索耶是其中之一。他總計贏得四十一座國際獎項，更前無古人地贏得三次科幻界最高獎金「西班牙加泰隆尼亞理工大學科幻獎」。他同樣榮獲三次日本星雲獎最佳翻譯長篇，以及二○○七中國銀河獎最受歡迎外國科幻作家。 索耶是加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一，更是加拿大主流小說榜Top Ten，曾奪下軌跡雜誌暢銷榜第一。在加拿大《筆與紙》書評雜誌Quill & Quire列出的三十位加拿大出版界重要人物中，索耶是三位作家其中一位。他的網齡超過二十五年，更是全世界第一個架設個人網站的科幻作家。 索耶復興了硬派科幻小說的傳統，以其出自純科學的大膽假定，追隨艾西莫夫和海萊因等大師的路數。他不但囊括科幻三大獎，更與《時...(展开全部)

羅伯特．索耶Robert J. Sawyer 星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎得主 加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一 史上只有七位作家得過全部科幻最高獎項星雲、雨果、坎伯三大獎，索耶是其中之一。他總計贏得四十一座國際獎項，更前無古人地贏得三次科幻界最高獎金「西班牙加泰隆尼亞理工大學科幻獎」。他同樣榮獲三次日本星雲獎最佳翻譯長篇，以及二○○七中國銀河獎最受歡迎外國科幻作家。 索耶是加拿大有史以來最成功的作家之一，更是加拿大主流小說榜Top Ten，曾奪下軌跡雜誌暢銷榜第一。在加拿大《筆與紙》書評雜誌Quill & Quire列出的三十位加拿大出版界重要人物中，索耶是三位作家其中一位。他的網齡超過二十五年，更是全世界第一個架設個人網站的科幻作家。 索耶復興了硬派科幻小說的傳統，以其出自純科學的大膽假定，追隨艾西莫夫和海萊因等大師的路數。他不但囊括科幻三大獎，更與《時...(展开全部)