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)

"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)

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

《死者》是爱尔兰知名作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯短篇小说代表作。 知识分子加布里埃尔在圣诞宴会后，因妻子格丽塔追忆病逝的旧情人而陷入精神顿。 结尾“整个爱尔兰都在下雪”的意象，将个人情感危机升华为对生死、爱情与民族命运的沉思，雪覆盖生者与死者的画面成为现代主义文学经典场景。

秋吉理香子，日本推理界炙手可热的新生代推理作家，毕业于早稻田大学文学系，获得美国罗耀拉玛丽蒙特大学电影电视制作硕士学位。2008年以《雪花》荣获第三届“Yahoo!日本文学奖”，2009年以收录该得奖作品的同名短篇小说集《雪花》正式踏入文坛。《暗黑女子》和《亡者在放学后归来》是她的两部长篇小说代表作。

A new generation of mystery fans are trapped in a castle, and the author is dead. So begins a fair-play mystery novel uniting the detective revivals of Robin Stevens and Anthony Horowitz with impossible crimes worthy of John Dickson Carr and Christianna Brand. Dear Reader, You are invited to join me at grand Carver's Rest - the scene of my murder. I am the author of this dark t...(展开全部)

With the incomparable opening chapter of "Call for the Dead," titled "A Brief History of George Smiley," John Le Carre introduces his legendary spy and immediately ensnares you in the shadowy world Smiley inhabits. Pulled back from overseas duty during World War II, Smiley was redirected to face the threats of the Cold War. He had been asked to interview Samuel Fennan of the Fo...(展开全部)