In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

你为什么会写这样一部冷酷的作品？
虽然我活得很好，但这个世界却不好。
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诺贝尔文学奖得主萨拉马戈代表作
入选诺贝尔学院“所有时代百部最佳文学作品”
被《泰晤士报》誉为“当今世界最卓越的一部作品”
与奥威尔的《一九八四》、卡夫卡的《审判》并驾齐驱。——《柯克斯书评》
萨拉马戈用想象力、同情心和反讽所维系的寓言，让我们把握到捉摸不定的现实。——诺贝尔颁奖辞
萨拉马戈和马尔克斯是我心目中最好的两位作家，但在我看来，萨拉马戈对现实的隐喻更强。——著名作家 苏童
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繁忙的路口，绿灯亮了，中间车道的头一辆汽车却停止不前，司机在挡风玻璃后面挥舞着手臂，围观的人打开车门之后，才知道他在喊：我瞎了！没有人会相信，他的眼睛清晰明亮，巩膜像瓷器一样洁白致密，然而他却一再绝望地喊着：我瞎了！我瞎了！
一位路人送他回家，却被传染上失明的怪疾。眼科医生成了第三个牺牲品。失明症迅速蔓延，整个城市陷入了一场空前的灾难。

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

On Haeundae Beach, a guilt-ridden fisherman takes care of a woman whose father accidentally got killed. A scientist reunites with his ex-wife and a daughter who doesn't even remember his face. And a poor rescue worker falls in love with a rich city girl. When they all find out a gigantic tsunami will hit the beach, they realize they only have 10 minutes to escape.

Based on the true story of a pilot who had to ensure the safety of 128 passengers and crew members on the plane when its windshield became damaged mid-flight. The incident is regarded as one of the miracles in aviation history.

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

此书为刘慈欣获中国科幻银河奖的中短篇科幻小说作品集，收录有《流浪地球》《乡村教师》《全频带阻塞干扰》等获奖佳作。

2019 science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

2014 film by Jaume Collet-Serra

2006 film directed by Shinji Higuchi

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality.