这是22世纪的前夕：逝者从天堂寄来明信片，传道者以出神获取科学突破的契机，经过基因工程改造的吸血鬼可以解决基准人类束手无策的难题，士兵则身携战斗时会关闭自我意识的僵尸开关……而这一切都在一个拒不现身的外星人的监视之下。 在这个生物学已经变成计算科学的世界，野外生物学家丹尼尔·布吕克斯的一项研究成果变成了恐怖分子的杀人工具。为此他深居俄勒冈沙漠，拒绝与正在分化出不同亚种的人类社会为伍。但有一天晚上他醒来，发现自己身处一场风暴的中心。他在不明所以的追杀与求生里，被裹挟着踏上了一艘开往太阳系中心的飞船荆棘王冠号，与逃出实验室的吸血鬼瓦莱丽、寻觅儿子下落的上校吉姆和一群自称得到了进化启示的僧侣同行。 朝圣之旅的终点，布吕克斯要面对的，是自人类有思考以来大的进化断点。

Contains 5 Nebula and Hugo Nominees

At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs.</p> In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.</p>

In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes."The Lathe of Heaven" is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.

In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Reflections on my life -- On the structural analysis of science fiction -- Science fiction : a hopeless case -- with exceptions -- Philip K. Dick : a visionary among the Charlatans -- The time-travel story and related matters of science-fiction structuring -- Metafantasia : the possibilities of science fiction -- Cosmology and science fiction -- Todorov's fantastic theory of literature -- Unitas oppositorum : the prose of Jorge Luis Borges -- About the Strugatsky's Roadside picnic

★极致的唯物主义美学，绝对的认知快感！ ★当代科幻难以逾越的两座高峰：一座是特德·姜，另一座是格雷格·伊根！ ★一套书囊括72个世界级科幻大奖及提名。 ★收录各时期代表作和口碑新作，经典篇目齐全、量大管饱。 ★精装三卷本，满足收藏欲，便携易读。 ★宝树、陆秋槎、北星倾情 撰文导读，真正进入世界科幻大师的灵魂。 ★九名译者耗时两年打磨，格雷格•伊根亲自审定译文细节。 ★特邀科学顾问严格把关。 ★内外双封，基•连恩、李启龙中外画家联手绘制封面。 【内容简介】 自我是一场幻觉，选择并不存在，真理不是大厦，是流沙…… 如何在动荡不安的世界活下去？ . 三卷本收录了当代硬科幻大师格雷格·伊根三十年创作生涯的20篇经典力作。伊根火遍西方世界和日本，却从不曾以真面目示人：不签名，不混圈子，全网不露照片，甚至邮箱的线索都以智力题来呈现。他认为，人的内在和外部世界一样是可以用自然科学认知的，观念、人格、记忆甚至爱都能从物理学深处找到解释。我们能够认知一切，只要我们足够勇敢。 . 《闪光》（星云赏获奖作）：中国的光子计算机证明，两个自相矛盾的数学命题，竟可以同时为真。刺客、数学家、军方、金融寡头齐聚上海，一场捍卫世界最底层逻辑的战争，已悄然来临。 《恰如其分的爱》（星云赏提名作）：为了挽救出车祸的丈夫，她将其大脑移植进自己的子宫。她是爱人还是母亲？在以爱为名的终极剥削中，是否已丢失了自我？ 《祈祷之海》（雨果奖获奖作）：遥远异星的人类后代，为了信仰，身负重物沉入大洋，在即将窒息时获得神启。然而在漫漫人生中，坚守信仰困难重重，尤其当他撞上了真理的高墙…… 【名家推荐】 伊根的作品是智慧且富有逻辑的……当我读到他的作品，我立刻就能明白他的创作意图，因为这同样是我想做的事情。如果伊根是科幻作家，那么我也应该是科幻作家，这就是我的归属。 ——《降临》原著作者 著名科幻作家 特德•姜 格雷格·伊根的作品贯穿着“我可能是谁”“我可能不是谁”这种跨越平行世界的想象力。 ——《你的名字》《秒速五厘米》导演 新海诚 格雷格·伊根也许是当今世界最重要的科幻作家。 ——美国科幻频道旗下在线杂志 《科幻周刊》 《你的名字》《瑞克和莫蒂》《凉宫春日》《你好，世界》《活体脑细胞》《交响诗篇》《伯纳德小姐说》纷纷向其致敬 新海诚、贰瓶勉、宫泽伊织、伊藤智彦、伊藤计划、伴名练、濑名秀明等众多名家深受其影响

The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.

《宛转环》是青年创作者慕明的首部作品，收录了她自2017年创作以来的《宛转环》《涂色世界》等获奖篇目，也有在2020至2022年间创作和重写的《破境》《铸梦》等新篇目。科技前沿的工作背景，跨学科的阅读趣味，使得这些小说具有开阔的视野和严谨的思维方式，而从科幻、推想等类型创作中提炼的方法将思辨与想象共冶一炉，铸成了故事。这些小说既独立成篇，也通过细致深入的线索勾连，编织出了一个丰富隽永的环形时空。从杳冥上古到当代生活再到极远的未来，故事以不同的书写尺度折射出现实的影子，也因此没有被现实压垮，而是以智识再造真实，以灵巧抵达自由。

In a cosmos of prolific evolutionary diversity and complexity, Mallory Ringess, headstrong novice of the Order of Pilots, sets out to penetrate the Soild State Entity and to track down the secret of immortality

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth.The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.

IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'. This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestors of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three Ellman Lectures on 2010 - 'Flying Rabbits', which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes', which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies', which investigates Ustopias -Utopia/Dystopia - including her own ventures into those constructions. IN OTHER WORLDS also reprints some of Atwood's key reviews and speculations about the form, or forms - for she also elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between 'science fiction' proper, and 'speculative fiction', not to mention 'sword and sorcery/fantasy' and 'slipstream fiction'.

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

From the winner of the National Book Foundations' 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a "sweet, funny . . . thought-provoking" (<EM>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</EM>) collection of short stories.</P> As in his most recent major fiction collections, <EM>One More for the Road</EM> (1999) and <EM>Driving Blind</EM> (1997), Ray Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers of all ages. In <EM>The Cat's Pyjamas</EM> we are treated to a treasure trove of Bradbury gems old and new -- eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative -- all but two of which have never been published before. <EM>The Cat's Pyjamas</EM> is a joyous celebration of the lifelong work of a literary legend.</P> </P> </P>

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the nebula and Hugo nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man."

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!