亚茨拉斐尔（迈克尔·辛 Michael Sheen 饰）是守卫城门的天使，而克劳利（大卫·田纳特 David Tennant 说）则是堕落的恶魔。两人几千年来都一直隐姓埋名生活在人间，并且通过不断的尝试，在天堂和地狱之间建立了井水不犯河水的互惠互利的关系。
克劳利奉撒旦之命，将婴儿敌基督送到修道院，同美国外交官的新生儿做交换，当敌基督长到11岁时，就是世界末日来临之时。为了防止世界被毁灭，亚茨拉斐尔和克劳利决定通过影响这个孩子的善恶观念来避免世界的终结。在努力了11年之后，两人震惊的发现，他们竟然弄错了对象，而真正的敌基督此时生活在一个名为塔德菲尔德偏僻小镇中。

According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the fifth volume in the series. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, beset by enemies. Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys and her dragons. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King's Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated father, Lord Tywin. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has enemies both in the Watch and beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies are massing for an assault. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all...

Trouble is brewing in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. For the driven inhabitants of this visionary world, control of Westeros' Iron Throne holds the lure of great power. But in a land where the seasons can last a lifetime, winter is coming...and beyond the Great Wall that protects them, an ancient evil has returned. In Season One, the story centers on three primary areas: the Stark and the Lannister families, whose designs on controlling the throne threaten a tenuous peace; the dragon princess Daenerys, heir to the former dynasty, who waits just over the Narrow Sea with her malevolent brother Viserys; and the Great Wall--a massive barrier of ice where a forgotten danger is stirring.

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.
A Feast for Crows
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.
But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.
It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.

The mythical city of Camelot, in a time before history began, is a fantastical realm of legendary beasts and mysterious peoples. In this dangerous world, magic has been banned by the ruthless tyrant; Uther Pendragon. Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, arrives at the gates of Camelot, sent by his mother to start a new life. Though bright-eyed with wonder, the young sorcerer quickly makes enemies, including the heir to Uther's crown, the headstrong Prince Arthur.

Rarely has there been a tale as gripping, or one as likely to seize the minds and hearts of a generation, as George R. R. Martin's epic high fantasy series. In A Game of Thrones, an ancient kingdom was torn by the ambitions of ruthless men and women; in A Clash of Kings, war, sorcery, and madness swept over the kingdom like a voracious beast of prey. Now, as the brutal struggle for power nears its tumultuous climax, the battered and divided kingdom faces its most terrifying invasion--one that is being spearheaded from beyond the grave....
A Storm Of Swords
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King's Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. Filled with the stench of death and decay from the destructive dynastic war, Daenerys is gathering allies and strength for an assault on King's Landing, hoping to win back the crown she believes is rightfully hers. But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings bent on overwhelming the Seven Kingdoms arrives from the outermost lineof civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. And as the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest in the quest for victory until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords....Brilliantly conceived and grand in scope, A Storm of Swords is the incredible tale of a world of harsh beauty and powerful magic, torn by treachery, ravaged by brutality, and consumed by greed and ambition. It portrays a war-torn landscape in which nobles and commoners, heroes and villains, the freeborn and the enslaved, all struggle to survive and to find their destinies...along with the dazzling bounty and wondrous enchantment that was once their birthright in the Seven Kingdoms.

In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced.
A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
A Game of Thrones
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.
Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

宇宙由无数平行的世界组成、借助奇妙的魔法神刀的切割可以彼此穿行。
生活在另一个牛津的少年威尔，遭遇着莫名追杀；在一只神秘的猫的指引下，他跨过一个秘密的窗口，来到另一个横行着吞噬成人精灵的妖怪的世界……
出于对母亲深沉的爱，威尔决定去寻找失踪多年的探险父亲。殊不知这对父子的命运早已与关系宇宙生死的巨大阴谋密不可分了……
亡命天涯的威尔遇到了继续在朝自己使命的莱拉，并偶然得到那把可以切开宇宙从而在不同世界穿梭的魔法神刀；
其实，这并非偶然，许多世纪前，就有了关于他和莱拉的神秘预言：他们即是亚当与夏娃，必须联合女巫和天使，以及所有正义的力量，帮助阿斯里尔勋爵，才能对抗强大的宗教和政治势力，揭开“尘埃”的秘密，拯救宇宙；而伊甸园那条引诱他们的蛇，则是女科学家马隆博士……

莱拉和威尔穿梭于各个险象环生的黑暗世界。
在披甲熊王与其他盟友的帮助下他们入从有活进的鬼魂世界，解救无数亡灵获得重生……
他们行走在人间、地狱与天堂，与恶魔鬼怪、教会、甚至上帝进行殊死战斗……
为了神圣的事业，阿斯里尔勋爵付之以生命，无数的天使与女巫将鲜血溅洒，库尔特夫人也在爱的感召下，归于尘土……威尔、莱拉、马隆博士，亚当、夏娃、蛇，终于会合了，一段不可知的探索之旅开始了……
然而等待他们的，还有那不可抗拒的命运，和犹如生死之隔的永别……

这一个不平凡的世界，人的灵魂是一个以动物形式存在的精灵，且人与精灵密不可分，不然，生命将不复存在。
13岁得莱拉，长在这个世界的牛津大学，没有家庭之爱，不识富有、强大但已成仇敌的父母，更不知自己身负震撼世界的诅咒；
她终日与玩伴及他们的精灵自由自在地嬉闹，长成了一个诡计多端、恣意妄为且谎话连篇的野女孩。
然而，可怕的预言无法抗拒，莱拉注定要承担起救世主之责，扮演人类之母夏娃一角：人人畏惧的“尘埃”出现了，饕餮游荡在城市各个角落，玩伴接连莫名失踪，快乐时光彻底完结于密友罗杰的失去，巨大的阴谋正在酝酿之中……
于是，在一个惟她可懂、能预知未来的黄金罗盘——真理仪的帮助下，浑然不觉险恶的莱拉决定去寻找被邪恶科学家掠走的孩子们，从此开始了拯救世界的艰难之旅；她朝着未知的北极而去；等待她的，有披甲熊、女巫、天使，悬崖厉鬼，更有能够终结生命的精灵切割机……
而领引她步步踏入死亡之地的，竟是其父，自然科学家阿斯里尔勋爵，与其母，狂热的原教旨主义信徒库尔特夫人……
2007年底，根据小说《黄金罗盘》改编的同名影片上映，妮可·基德曼、“新007”丹尼尔·克雷格、“邦女郎”伊娃·格林联袂献演，首周票房就登上美国国内排行榜榜首。08年3月中国内地引进上映。

在维斯特洛腐烂的尸身上
贪婪的乌鸦们展开盛大的宴会
少帅托孤，老少奔走天涯
群岛争王，亲属互不相让
云城裨阖，狡计分化四方
大漠孤烟，智者定夺天下
且看王都动乱、太后乱朝、宗教兴起、成亡败寇
继续抒写英雄史诗的篇章……
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该作承接第三卷，中心舞台转向了君临城。自泰温公爵暴毙之后，实权终于落到了皇太后瑟曦手上。她独断专行，力排异己，一时间朝中上下奸佞当道，人人自危，甚至连和她最亲密的弟弟詹姆之间也渐生罅隙。另一方面，北境之王罗柏死后，奔流城也放弃负隅顽抗被纳入了铁王座的版图。
表面上看起来维斯特洛大陆大局已定，然则私底下却有新一轮的势力崛起——铁群岛选出新王；布拉佛斯的“无面者”黑影憧憧；蛰伏多年的多恩人暗里里磨刀霍霍；连神秘的学城势力逐渐也浮出水面。七大王国的未来愈发扑朔迷离，难以预测……
各路势力你方唱罢，我又登场——谁将会是最终的胜利者？

继《权力的游戏》之后，乔治·马丁推出了另一部恢宏之作，续篇《列王的纷争》。与罗伯特·乔丹不同的是，乔治·马丁牢牢把握住了精妙的情节和那些真实得令人惊叹的人物。《列王的纷争》具备了一部优秀奇幻小说需要的所有元素：爱情故事、宫廷阴谋、背叛和战争，并且远不止于此。乔治·马丁所展示的人物能够在不觉中触及你的灵魂深处，引发你强烈的爱憎感，如同他们本是你真实生活中的一部分。这使得《冰与火之歌》不仅仅在奇幻界堪称杰作，更是一部文学佳品。马丁拒绝演绎寻常的善恶套路，或是呈现读者可能期待的那些包裹着糖衣的英雄故事。他书中的人物具有不可思议的深度，无论善恶，他们都将赚取你的情感。这些再结合魔法元素的合理运用和对悬念与高潮设置的天赋感觉，造就了《列王的纷争》，如同《权力的游戏》这本你全心爱上的小说一样，也使乔治·马丁跻身当代最卓越的作家之列。

《冰与火之歌》乃是马丁集三十多年写作经验的大成之作。甫一问世，便以别具一格的结构，浩瀚辽阔的视野，错落有致的情节和生动活泼的语言，迅速征服了欧美文坛，成为了当代奇幻文学里程碑式的作品。
《冰与火之歌》原著共约七卷，现已出版《权力的游戏》、《列王的纷争》、《冰雨的风暴》三卷，第四卷《群鸦的盛宴》将于今年夏季正式出版。

《冰与火之歌》由美国著名科幻奇幻小说家乔治·R·R·马丁所著，是当代奇幻文学一部影响深远的里程碑式的作品。它于1996年刚一问世，便以别具一格的结构，浩瀚辽阔的视野，错落有致的情节和生动活泼的语言，迅速征服了欧美文坛。迄今，本书已被译为数十种文字，并在各个国家迭获大奖。
本书主要描述了在一片虚构的中世纪大陆上所发生的一系列相互联系的宫廷斗争、疆场厮杀、游历冒险和魔法抗衡的故事，全书七卷（包括未出的各卷）浑然一体，共同组成了一幅壮丽而完整的画卷。书名“冰与火”，为的是突出人性挣扎的含义，书中塑造了无数的人物，但其着眼点，却并非孤立地凸现英雄主义，奉献精神或奸猾阴谋，而是将书中人物放在一个“真人”的角度，写出他或她在时代和社会的旋涡中不同的境遇与选择。从写作上说，本书与莎翁的《哈姆雷特》颇有共通之处。从中，读者便能与之产生呼应，共同经历这冰与火的洗礼。
那么《冰与火之歌》究竟有什么独特之处，在阅读中有哪些地方需要关注呢？
首先，本书采用了独特的视点人物写作手法（POV）。通俗地说，就好比一部大片，导演将摄影机装在不同人物的身上，并不断切换。整个故事，由甲人物以自身立场讲述一段后，便换为乙人物来讲述，以此类推，周而复始。翻开本书可看到，每章节的名称皆为一人物名，该人物便是本章的视点人物。这样的写法，不仅大大增强了代入感，尤为重要的是，它主观地限制了读者（通过视点人物的视野）获取信息和进行思考的广度，为书中错综复杂的线索设置提供了必要的帷幕。作者的另一巧思在于，相对于采取这一写法的同类作品常出现的时间线索混乱，叙事搅成一团等弊端，本书经过精心梳理后，每个章节的时间互不交叉，而是呈现精巧的上下承接的关系，虽然视点人物不同，但故事却在不断前进。
其次，本书每个章节张弛有度，节奏感非常强烈，能吸引人连续地阅读。作者在写作《冰与火之歌》之前，已获得多次雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖等等，并在好莱坞担任编剧长达十年之久，丰富的经历，使本书成为了他三十多年写作经验的总括和升华之作。在本书每个章节，读者都可以很轻松地发现其自身的起始、进行和高潮，本书的每一卷，也形成自身的起始、进行和高潮，乃至在由整个七卷组成的《冰与火之歌》，也呈现出这样完整的结构。不仅互相串联，其中更包含了无数的情节兴奋点。作者曾经说，担任编剧，最痛苦的是不能将自己的才华在四十五分钟一集的时间内释放出来，而本书，从某种意义上说，正是他对自身抱负的一种实现。
第三，这本书，诚如上面已提及的，其核心在于“人”本身。由是，它没有简单的答案，并不是一本可以懒洋洋浏览的书。它不仅包括无数扣人心弦的情节，更重要的是，它所描述的情景，往往是真实人生中无可回避，必须面对的东西。因为人本身是最复杂的。看过本卷《权力的游戏》的读者朋友，不妨在下列问题上作深入的思考，如琼恩·艾林死亡的真相，行刺布兰的真相，乃至琼恩的父母等等，相信作者最后会让你大吃一惊。同时，相对于其他的奇幻作品，习惯于主角落地百尺毫发无伤，或危机时刻总能化险为夷的读者，本书可能是一个真正的惊愕。在作者笔下，每个角色均以其真实的轨迹在运行，有成功，也有痛苦，甚至死亡，本书正是通过这样的构架翻动着读者的情绪。
第四，本书是典型的西方史诗奇幻文学。既然是史诗，其落脚点就是整个书中呈现的世界，关注的问题宏伟，全书的格局庞大。历史，人物，宗教，神话交织在一起，展示出一个亦幻亦真的世界。或许会有读者认为，本书更像一本历史小说，这种论断有其合理之处。马丁本人曾在采访中言道:“我喜欢历史小说，但历史小说最大的局限是结局已经基本注定，不论作者付出多大的巧思，都失去了最大的悬念点和高潮处-结尾。”所以，他选择了《冰与火之歌》这样一个虚构的世界。另一点值得关注的是，在奇幻文学必不可少的元素“魔法”的处理上，作者马丁秉承托尔金的精神，运用得非常谨慎，着意刻画神秘感。读者或许记得，《魔戒之王》虽是一部典型的奇幻作品，且出现大量的神灵和超自然现象，乃至伟大的法师甘道夫等等，但书中却没有具体描述一种魔法。针对这一特点，马丁曾经说“魔法等元素就好比调料，不用则无以凸现奇幻氛围，滥用则会串味。”在这一思想的指导下，相对于无数火球满天飞的“奇幻”作品，《冰与火之歌》之中的魔法显得非常精细、神秘和巧妙。
一直以来，国内的奇幻文坛苦于少有优秀奇幻文学作品的引进。少量以次充好，粗制滥造的作品，甚至使得文学界将在西方百花齐放，无比兴旺的幻想文学归入了少儿读物和幼稚作品一类。纵然在关注奇幻文学的读者群中，参差不齐的玄幻文学，也蒙蔽了人们的视线。透过本书的出版，阅读一本真正的奇幻作品，感受一下奇幻小说无穷的魅力，让她真正地扎下根来！
可以想见，本书的成功，必将推动新一轮奇幻文学作品引进和阅读的风潮！

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