Doyne Farmer and Alletta Belin, 1992　　There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future.　K. Eric Drexler, 1992　　Introduction　Artificial Evolution in the Twenty-first Century　　The notion that the world around us is cont...

　　CHAPTER I　　SECRET PAPER-WORK　　THE TWO thirty-eights roared simultaneously.　The walls of the underground room took the crash of sound and batted it to and fro between them until there was silence. James Bond watched the smoke being sucked from each end of the room towards the central Vent...

　This novel is dedicated to Stan, Christopher, Michele and Howard; to Rosario and Patrice; to Pamela and Elaine; and to Niccolo.　This novel is dedicated by Vittorio to the people of Florence, Italy.　　　1　WHO I AM, WHY I WRITE, WHAT IS TO E　　WHEN I was a small boy I had a terrible dream. I ...

　　第一章 风过回廊　　Ｉ　　在狱如细碎水晶的点点星光下，金发年轻人甫下车的那一刻，“皇帝万岁”的欢呼热烈地响彻海尼森的夜空。就像年青人一辈子也看不厌星光般，他的士兵们心目中对这位值得歌颂的年轻皇帝，是永远也看不厌的。皇帝莱因哈特。冯。罗严克拉姆，闪耀着金碧辉煌的金发，举手向守护宇宙港的帝国士兵回...

　　I ignored the questions in the eyes of the groom as I lowered the grisly parcel and turned the horse in for care and maintenance. My cloak could not really conceal the nature of its contents as I slung the guts over my shoulder and stamped off toward the rear entrance to the palace. Hell woul...

　　And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,　　And the dry stone no sound of water. Only　　There is shadow under this red rock,　　(e in under the shadow of this red rock),　　And I will show you something different from either　　Your shadow in the morning striding behind you...

（前言）儿童文学，顾名思义，是指适合不同年龄的少年儿童阅读的各种体裁的文学作品。它浅显易懂，生动活泼，适应儿童心理，富有儿童情趣，融知识性和思想性于娱乐性和趣味性之中，是向少年儿童进行审美教育、思想品德教育和科学文化知识教育的重要手段。古往今来，世界各国产生了浩如繁星、璀璨夺目的优秀儿童文学作品...

The Earliest HistoryHISTORY OF THE Six Duchies is of necessity a history of its ruling family, the Farseers. A plete telling would reach back beyond the founding of the First Duchy and, if such names were remembered, would tell us of Outislanders raiding from the sea, visiting as pirates a...

　　自序　　我最难忘的一件木雕　　我最难忘的一位烈士　　我最难忘的一个“反共义士”　　我最难忘的一个组织　　我最难忘的一片小湖　　我最难忘的一个邻居　　我最难忘的一场演讲　　我最难忘的一套条例　　我最难忘的一家书店　　我最难忘的一位学者　　我最难忘的一位教授　　我最难忘的一个官僚同学　　我最难忘...

　Now, six months have passed since Anita has seen either Jean-Claude or Richard. Six months of celibacy. Six months of indecision. Six months of danger. For her body carries the marks of both vampire and werewolf, and until the triumvirate is consummated, all three remain vulnerable.　But when a...

　　　　In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.　　...

序章当看到那个掀起无数沙尘的身影以极快的速度划破地表朝他冲过来时，吉格·格兰斯特立刻绷紧了自己的神经，整个身体也因兴奋而燥热起来。少年紧握住剑柄，将几乎和自己一样高的大剑“爆裂刀改”直直地插进土里，让它像盾牌一样护住全身。那些如牙齿一般并列在刀身上的利刃在阳光照射下反射出锐利的寒光。就在他摆好这...

　　Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.　　This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which wa...

　　The eyes behind the wide black rubber goggles were cold as flint. In the howling speed-turmoil of a BSA M20 doing seventy, they were the only quiet things in the hurtling flesh and metal. Protected by the glass of the goggles, they stared fixedly ahead from just above the centre of the handle...

　　Acknowledgements　Because, in some instances, I met many of the real people in positions which, of necessity, are in this novel, I wish to state that none of the characters drawn here in any way resemble their real-life counterparts who, without exception, were extremely helpful to me.　I wou...

　　　　Morning sun stripes cell.　　Five fingers feel my hard heart.　　It hurts, hurts, like hell.　　- F.J. Frenger, Jr.　　　　　　　　1　　　　Frederick J. Frenger, Jr., a blithe psychopath from California, asked the flight attendant in first class for another glass of champagne and some wri...

　　　　图书简介　　周汝昌“论红”著作中，最奇特的一本……　　周汝昌详细地分析了张爱玲对《红楼梦》研究的方方面面，在肯定了其版本学和探佚学的成就后，也对张爱铃在“曹学”和“脂学”方面的诸多不足提出了质疑……　　周汝昌是真的懂得欣赏张爱玲的人，他说，“我是才华智慧的崇拜者，尤其倾倒于曹雪芹所说的‘...

　　　　THE BOOK OF BLOOD　　　　THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN　　　　THE YATTERING AND JACK　　　　PIG BLOOD AND STARSHINE　　　　IN THE HILLS, THE CITIES　　　　THE BOOK OF BLOOD　　　　　　THE DEAD HAVE highways.　　They run, unerring lines of ghost-trains, of dream-carriages, across the wasteland b...

　But not for us.　The winter nights are too. The nights of fall, the nights of spring. Not for us, not for us.　The house we live in is so pleasant in Caulfield. The blue-green tint of its lawn, that always seems so freshly watered no matter what the time of day. The sparkling, aerated pinwheels...

（前言）儿童文学，顾名思义，是指适合不同年龄的少年儿童阅读的各种体裁的文学作品。它浅显易懂，生动活泼，适应儿童心理，富有儿童情趣，融知识性和思想性于娱乐性和趣味性之中，是向少年儿童进行审美教育、思想品德教育和科学文化知识教育的重要手段。古往今来，世界各国产生了浩如繁星、璀璨夺目的优秀儿童文学作品...