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This book collects ten masterpieces from Connie Willis's creative career, including "Fire in the Sky", "The Queen Too" and "The Last Winnebago", which won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, as well as the work of the same name that pays tribute to Agatha Christie's "Tragedy on the Nile". These works capture scattered fragments from daily life, blend them with wonderful scientific imagination from a unique perspective full of aura, and weave warm and soft dreams one after another.

"String" is both a science fiction story and a love story. Bridie, a young girl who works in a mobile phone company, is very much looking forward to the upcoming EED surgery with her boyfriend Trang. After this operation, they will achieve true "telepathy" and be able to perceive what the other person is thinking and saying even if they are separated by two places. Due to time constraints, Bridie completed the operation first. When she woke up, the man's voice she sensed in her head was not her boyfriend Trang, but her eccentric technical male colleague C. B who she usually disdained. Terrified, she avoided her boyfriend for fear of being discovered and had an accident during the operation. At the same time, she experienced various thrilling things with C. B by chance. At the same time, she learned that the strange behavior of her boyfriend who had failed the operation also made Bridie suspicious...