雪夜，一位男演员猝死在话剧《李尔王》的舞台上。数小时后，人类文明因为一场流行瘟疫而分崩离析。
格鲁吉亚流感爆发后的第二十年，旅行交响乐团在末世废土上巡演，为散布在各定居点的幸存者送去音乐和莎士比亚戏剧。
在水边小镇圣德博拉，一位癫狂的先知将乐团众人逼上了逃亡之路，这段旅途的终点是一座据说保留了旧日遗迹的“文明博物馆”。

喜好Cosplayer，黑魔术代理店兼灵异能力者，爱耍花招但却激萌的nico动画系的占卜师，超级眼镜系的自称超能力者灵异系同人漫画家的大姐姐，憧憬着成为某动画角色的御宅族，感觉不好的大叫的夸大妄想者，将科学无法说明的东西全部否定的超高中级科学家，超级奇怪的杂志《ムムー》的记者，然后还有不可或缺的主人公——作为2ch引用系的博主。他们身边小小的违和感的事情逐渐发展成了超出想象的大事件……

2017 American 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Pierre Coffin

A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.

以《女仆咖啡厅》（それでも町は廻っている）等作品而为人所知的石黑正数的最新单行本《外天楼》将在10月21日发售。

《外天楼》是在文艺杂志メフィスト（讲谈社）上连载的推理漫画。漫画讲述了刑警樱庭冴子着手调查被称为“外天楼”的建筑，以及和外天楼有关的不可思议的人们，从而逐渐解开了各种谜团之间的关系的故事。此次发行的单行本，其封腰上有著名动画监督新房昭之对这部作品的推荐语，并希望本作能够动画化。

和久隆（阪口大助 配音）、小高胜（保志总一朗 配音）、矢村大一（杉田智和 配音）、半井摩子（井口裕香 配音）等十五名少年少女，正满心希冀的准备迎接即将到来的暑假。就在此时，一位名为可可贝利的神秘男子突然出现，邀请孩子们参加一个电脑游戏。在游戏中，他们将会驾驶着巨大的机器人，和邪恶的外星物种进行战斗。
在半推半就之中，孩子们和可可贝利定下了契约，而契约一旦签订，无论发生了什么，孩子们都不可能放弃这个游戏。然而，让他们没有想到的是，巨大的机器人行动所使用的能源，竟然就是他们的生命，也就是说，无论是失败还是胜利，每一个驾驶员们所要面对的结局只有一个，那就是死亡。

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.

三代禅让，商汤伐桀，宗周革命，春秋战国……秦失其鹿，天下英雄共逐之！
然而又有谁能想到这“其兴也勃焉，其亡也忽焉”的王朝更替背后，竟有一股神秘力量在操纵。
在大秦帝国即将崩溃的前夜，淮阴韩信虽然才高八斗，学富五车，身怀治国平天下之策，却无人赏识。潦倒中，一位神秘的黑衣人出现在他面前，向他许下一个魔鬼交易。历史之轮自此徐徐转动，隐秘于上古神话中的黑手渐渐露出它庞大的身影,而韩信亦踏上逐鹿中原的征战之途。
历史会按照黑衣人的计划再度重演吗？那个注定要在史书中以“名将”相称的年轻人，韩信，会屈从于黑衣人的意志吗？在历史之轮停止前没有人能知道答案……

本书是詹姆逊自《后现代主义，或晚期资本主义的文化逻辑》之后非常有分量的一本学术著作。在本书中，詹姆逊思考的核心问题是：在第一世界科技日新月异、而第三世界却崩溃瓦解的全球化时代，“乌托邦”这一概念对我们是否还有意义？全书分为两个部分，第一部分细致地考察了自托马斯·莫尔以来“乌托邦”这种社会构想的历史发展变迁，并对它在后共产主义时代的功能提出了质疑；第二部分则重点关注一系列科幻小说中所体现出的他者性，通过研究作品中的外星生命和外星世界，詹姆逊探讨了乌托邦与科幻小说的关系，总结性地反思了对于乌托邦的各种反对之声，并重新评估了在当今时代乌托邦的政治价值。

《卫报》2014年度最佳自然科普图书之一
《物理世界》2014年度十佳图书之一
【内容简介】
从瞬间移形到太空电梯，从外星接触到星际旅行，科幻和奇幻作家笔下的世界总是充满奇思妙想。但是这些奇妙的设定到底是否可信呢？比如哈利波特系列中，威斯礼先生的飞行车能在现实中存在吗？哪些设定有可能成真？哪些根本就不可能实现？本书探讨了科幻与奇幻世界中最富创意的那些细节：比如时空扭曲、变形魔法、火箭推进器、飘浮蜡烛的照明效果等等，还向读者展示了其背后隐藏的物理学和数学原理。
本书作者查尔斯•阿德勒运用浅显易懂的数学模型，和仅仅高中难度的代数学知识，覆盖了大量有趣的科幻和奇幻主题。其中既有厄休拉•勒古恩的经典著作，又有《星球大战》和《阿凡达》等科幻大片，帮助读者得以认清可能性的限界。阿德勒先生阐述了《哈利波特》和《德雷斯顿档案》等奇幻作品难以严格符合科学原理的深层次原因，以及魔法在麻瓜世界的科学之处。他详细讲述了星际旅行，让我们理解为什么它没有变得像科幻作品预言的那样经济又普及。阿德勒还从科学角度讲述了关于系外行星的知识，以及在现实中我们怎样寻找外星人，为什么工作的重点从无线通讯转向了太空望远镜。在全书的末尾，他探讨了人类与其他智能生物的终极命运。全书旁征博引，谈及巨量的科幻作家及其作品。不止在正文中包含若干故事梗概，还在附录里奉上了一份关于牛顿运动定律的速成简介。
《巫师，外星人和星际战舰》适用于任何科幻和奇幻读者，不管你是喜欢踏踏实实的技术，还是天马行空的想象，它都会帮助你更好地理解有关科幻与奇幻的一切。
【读者定位】
1.从《星际迷航》的狂热粉丝到天体物理学家的所有读者。
2.科幻作家写作的案头利器。
3.科技宅人/geek的思考圣经。
4.创意意爱好者的学习指南
5.初高中热爱科幻的同学。
【推荐语】
作为一本科幻奇幻文学的拓展之书、类型文学作家的参考之书、创意爱好者的学习指南、科技宅人／geek的思考圣经，《巫师、外星人和星舰：科幻与奇幻中的物理数学》在中国的引进和出版是科幻奇幻领域的一个有价值的大事。希望这个作品能带动更多国人的同类创作。——北京师范大学文学院教授 世界华人科幻协会会长 吴岩
恰好，过去两年我在中山大学逸仙学院上过《人与宇宙的物理学》这门课，这门课的精神与《巫师》这本书很接近。我打算将来在中山大学再开一门课，这门课的教材就是《巫师、外星人和星舰》，这门课的课名也许就是《科幻和奇幻中的物理学与数学》。
——中山大学天文与空间科学研究院院长 著名理论物理学家 李淼
“阿德勒完美地向我们展现出，即便是最基础的数学和物理学也具有强大的力量。如果你个崭露头角的年轻科学工作者，还对代数学有点兴趣，你会喜欢这本书的。”
——罗伯特•马修斯，《BBC聚焦》
“我也说不清我对这本书的感觉是爱还是恨。爱它是因为它分析了奇幻、科幻作品中众多魔法和太空探索背后的物理学知识，令我为之着迷。恨它是因为它揭示了我永远都无法实现一个梦想的原因。一直以来，我都憧憬着能大喊一声：‘传送我吧，斯科蒂！’，然后完成瞬移。不过，查尔斯•阿德勒又将我拉回了现实……这本书中的物理学知识解释得非常到位，阿德勒举的例子也十分有趣。”
——诺艾尔•安•布拉德肖，《泰晤士高等教育》
“《巫师、外星人与星舰》这本书本身就非常棒，此外，它还可作为学习太空探索所需的物理学知识以及经典科幻作品的入门读物。”
——罗伯特•谢弗，纽约书评网
“对那些真正想了解太空旅行的真相或外星生命存在可能性的人来说，《巫师、外星人与星舰》无疑是绝佳选择。此外，它还可作为物理学和天文学课程上引人入胜的补充性读物。”
——西德尼•佩尔科维茨，“科学家的书柜”网站
“这本书内容充实，不仅适合科幻作者阅读，还适合任何想见识运用于实际的真正的科学的读者，它会解答你的很多问题。认真阅读它，保证你会赞不绝口。”
——G•F•威尔梅茨，“科幻瞭望台”网站
“无论是将其作为课程教材，还是自学读物，你都会发现这本书集趣味性与教育性于一体，且能引人深思。”
——马克•胡尼亚切克，《美国数学协会评论》
“如果你想了解科幻和奇幻作品中的科学知识哪些是正确的，哪些是错误的，这本书一定适合你。”
——《月球与行星信息通讯》
“这本书写得很好，也很有趣，阿德勒为此下了不少功夫。对任何希望创作真正符合科学原则的科幻小说作者来说，它非常具有参考价值。”
——《大众科学》
“这本书里的很多内容都会引起天文学和航天学爱好者的兴趣，我认为它也很有可能会吸引物理学专业的学生。”
——约翰•哈尼，《马格尼亚》杂志
“马里兰州圣玛丽学院物理系教授查尔斯•L•阿德勒和我们一样，是一名资深科幻迷，他这个领域有深入的了解。无论是对阅读《类似》杂志的科幻迷还是有志于创作硬科幻的作者来说，《巫师、外星人与星舰》都称得上是一本好书。我想说，这本书中涉及的公式都是绝对经得起验证的。此外，阿德勒创作这本书是为了向波尔•安德森致敬……《巫师、外星人与星舰》是写给科幻的一封情书。”
——唐萨科尔斯，《类似》杂志
“该书兼具趣味性与科学性。”
——保罗•吉尔斯特，《半人马座梦境》作者
“这书太有趣了！”
——基斯•库珀，《当今天文学》杂志
“《巫师、外星人与星舰》在分析书中相关对象时，将科幻的文学性与科学的严谨性完美地贯穿起来。不论是变形术的质量守恒问题，在霍格沃茨点蜡烛，还是建造一颗行星，阿德勒笔下的科学知识向来通俗易懂，并深受宅男宅女们的喜爱。”
——格伦•达拉斯，《旧金山书评》
“《巫师、外星人与星舰》同时满足了我对科学与科幻二者的喜爱……我的确很喜欢这本书，并想将它推荐给任何一家收藏科普、科幻图书的学术图书馆。若是大型公共图书馆和很多中学图书馆能收藏此书，也会让借阅者们受益良多。它还可以作为一份很棒的礼物，送给具备一定科学背景的年轻（甚至不再年轻的）科幻迷。”
——约翰•迪普伊，《一名科学图书馆管理员的自白》
“这本书是一项了不起的成就……它肯定是你在任何地方能找到的所有的教科书里最酷的那本……任何渴望了解何为现实、何为想象的科幻迷或奇幻迷几乎一定会喜欢它，你们可以期待从这本书中了解到，不论是在伟大的文学作品中，还是在真实的宇宙中，到底什么是可能实现的。”
——乔纳森•T•马莱，《探索》杂志
“这本书可读性高、妙趣横生、文笔出色，书中幽默之处众多。显然，阿德勒热爱所有类型的科幻作品——图书、短篇小说、电影和剧集，他乐于从科学的角度思考这些作品……总之，这本书不但全面介绍了众多科幻作品，还可以作为物理学和天文学的入门手册。”
——《选择》杂志
“这是一本令人兴奋的书……如果有人对物理学和科幻作品之间的关系感兴趣，我会毫不犹豫地将这本书推荐给他，尤其是讲授物理学入门课程的老师们，这本书可以作为枯燥的物理学课本有价值的补充材料，它甚至可能会提高学生对课程的评价，我肯定会在我的课堂上使用这本书。”
——科斯塔斯•埃夫蒂米乌，《物理世界》杂志
“《巫师、外星人和星舰：科幻与奇幻中的物理数学》是一本很棒的书。我刚开始阅读它，就立刻被作者查尔斯•阿德勒从字里行间流露出的热情与兴奋所吸引。这是一本让人手不释卷的好书。” ——爱德华•贝尔布鲁诺，《今日物理》杂志
“《巫师、外星人和星舰》这一书名根本不足以概括这本书——它将科学与科幻以轻松有趣的方式联系起来。从烛光到瞬移，再到古老浩瀚的宇宙，这本书可以作为很好的教学材料。它从科学的角度解读了我们身处的世界，无论是真实存在的，还是想象中的。它必将成为经典。”
——迦勒•沙尔夫，《重力引擎》和《哥白尼情结》的作者
“这本书非常棒，它利用严谨可靠的物理学定律分析了科幻作品中天马行空的意象。从《星际迷航》爱好者，到天体物理学家，都会认为它很有趣。”
——保罗•纳辛，《逻辑学家与工程师》作者
“《巫师、外星人和星舰》严格地运用物理学定律来解释科幻、奇幻书籍、电影及剧集中的概念、情节设计和其他元素。如果你认真阅读阿德勒详细的分析过程，你会对常见科幻作品中的修辞有更多的了解，学到大量物理学知识，并了解科学家认识世界的方式。这是一本非同寻常的书。”
——A•鲍登•万•里佩尔，《流行文化中的科学》作者

当代物理学中一些非常重要而又艰深的思想，往往因为难以形象浅显地解说而不易为公众了解。本书作者不畏艰辛，用很生动的方式向读者展示了现代物理前沿之一——超空间理论。全书15章分为4篇，分别描述了超空间的研究历史，超空间理论通往爱因斯坦梦寐以求的“物理学圣杯”统一场论的可能性，通过超空间穿越时空的可能性的理论探讨，以及何时方能实际利用超空间理论所具有的潜在威力。详尽而又如此通俗地讲述这种理论，在本书之前尚未见先例。

自古以来，“宇宙”就意味着“所有的东西”。但在本书中，超级畅销书作家格林将以他那招牌式的睿智和幽默告诉你，我们的宇宙可能并非唯一的宇宙，他会带你游历梦幻般的各种平行宇宙。他将告诉你，我们的宇宙不过是无数平行宇宙中的一个，这些平行宇宙的图景更是匪夷所思：百衲被多重宇宙、暴胀的多重宇宙、弦的多重宇宙、量子多重宇宙、全息多重宇宙、虚拟多重宇宙和终极多重宇宙。即使你对世界的认识不因本书而颠覆，你的视野也会因此极大地拓展。

The fourth season of the animated television series Rick and Morty was confirmed by Adult Swim in May 2018. The season is set to consist of ten episodes. The first five episodes of the season premiered on November 10, 2019; the remaining five will premiere some time in the future.

《平面国:一个多维的传奇故事(修订版)》是一本虚幻小说，书中的主人公是一个正方形，生活在二维空间里。全书分为两部分。第一部分描述平面国的社会状况：统治阶层与被统治阶层之间的予盾和斗争，妇女的卑微地位和苦况。第二部分通过主人公正方形与三维世界来客——圆球——的邂逅，述说正方形如何认识立体物体和三维空间。读者从中可以初步了解更高维空间的知识。

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The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
This novel is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers ever since its first publication in 1818. The novel is the outcome of reflection on Gothic horror, galvanism, the then theories concerning the origin of life and the myth of Prometheus.
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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelg?nger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image … but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen
After being rescued from an iceberg, Dr. Frankenstein relates his autobiography to the ship's captain, complete with vivid descriptions of his idyllic childhood and passionate cries of regret that not even his love for Elizabeth could control his fanatic ambition. Dr. Frankenstein has been consumed by his desire to create a fully-grown living creature. When he reaches his goal, he perceives his creation as a monster, immediately regrets his work, and promptly abandons it. We also hear the poignant voice of the monster as he describes the spurning and physical attacks he has endured because of his ugliness; his desolate pain and loneliness; how he learns to love; how he finally finds and tries, unsuccessfully, to make peace with his maker; how he learns to hate. A story within a story, Frankenstein is a subtle and ironic prophecy that raises the question of who exactly is the real monster in this story.
From Booklist
Part of the Whole Story series, this is the full text of Mary Shelley's classic gothic story, which was first published in 1818 and has been a wild success ever since. Philippe Munch's illustrations have none of the power of Barry Moser's unforgettable woodcuts that evoke the loneliness of the grotesque outsider (in the Pennyroyal edition published by the University of California Press in 1984). The design here is crowded, and the type is small. However, the many period prints and maps in color and in black and white, with long, detailed captions, do provide the historical setting for the story, its geography, customs, and ideas. Teens enthralled by pop versions of the myth as well as science fiction fans will be interested in going back to the full version of what has been called the first science fiction novel and learning about the circumstances under which it was written by a woman, just 18 years old, 170 years ago.
Hazel Rochman
From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-Full-color drawings, photographs, and reproductions with extended captions have been added to the unedited text of Shelley's novel, thus placing the work in the context of the era in which it was written. The artwork faithfully represents the text and makes this edition appealing to reluctant readers. Unfortunately, many of the captions provide tangential information that, although interesting, interrupts the flow of the story. However, readers will quickly learn that it is not necessary to read every caption and appreciate this volume for its many quality illustrations.
Michele Snyder, Chappaqua Public Library, NY
From AudioFile
With so many poor adaptations of Mary Shelley's classic work in all forms of media, it's refreshing to come across a production that retains the quality, premise, and themes of the original book. As the title and principal character, Dr. Frankenstein has an affected voice that suits his tragically ambitious character. The supporting cast works well in a full range of emotions. The script and vocal characterizations de-emphasize Shelley's vision of an intelligent and cunning monster, but this is a quibble. This production is a boon for students new to the book, teachers looking for supplemental classroom materials, and fans of classic literature. A.F.
About Author
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797 in London, the daughter of William Godwin--a radical philosopher and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft--a renowned feminist and the author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She eloped to France with Shelley in 1814, although they were not married until 1816, after the suicide of his first wife. She began work on Frankenstein in 1816 in Switzerland, while they were staying with Lord Byron, and it was published in 1818 to immediate acclaim. She died in London in 1851.
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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!

BBC最新高清纪录片，将镜头瞄准我们这颗星球上的植物，由主持人Iain Stewart 教授带领大家走进植物的世界，了解植物的起源及生命机理。这个主持人之前主持过 - 地球的力量， 非常喜欢主持人Iain Stewart 教授，可能就是因为这个带有浓重苏格兰口音的家伙，该系列纪录片知识性很强，而最难能可贵的是，专业乏味的植物学知识在他和BBC主创人员鬼斧神工般的技巧下变得娓娓动听！堪称高清版的 - 植物私生活
此系列一共分为三集：
Life from Light 生命源自阳光
The Power of Flowers 花的力量
The Challenger 挑战

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known.And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.