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We always think alien creatures come from other planets... In fact, they come from the deep sea. At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, a crack between two crustal plates connects a parallel universe - a wormhole. This is the nest of alien creatures. At seven o'clock in the morning on August 11, 2013, the first monster passed through the wormhole and landed in San Francisco. In the following decades, monsters continued to emerge from the bottom of the sea and attack Pacific coast cities such as Los Angeles, Australia, and Hong Kong. The number and types of monsters are increasing, attacks are becoming more frequent, and the degree of destruction is becoming more and more severe. The human world is always shrouded in the shadow of death and fear.

In Europe today, countries interact frequently, and their lifestyles are generally similar. People move around. Immigrants change the places they go, and they are also changed by their surroundings. This pattern was actually formed more than a thousand years ago. The origins of modern Europe can be traced back to a thousand-year transformation. With the rise and fall of empires, the Germanic-speaking Goths, Anglo-Saxons, and Franks, the nomadic Huns, Avars, and Magyars, the Vikings who came across the sea, and the Slavs who replaced the Germans to rule Central and Eastern Europe came and went across the land of Europe. These immigrants coveted the empire's wealth and were also afraid of the empire's violence. They followed the land route, sea route, and river network, either dragging their families with them to find a new home, or forming small teams to plunder, or trading slaves and furs for profit. From Rome to Europe, this is the story of immigrants who changed the world. A thousand years of migration ended the order dominated by the Roman Empire. The barbarians in the eyes of the Romans redrawn the human geography and political map of western Eurasia. In the struggle between the empire and the barbarians, the prototype of modern Europe gradually emerged.

The story is set in the near future, where environmental pollution and other disasters have transformed cities beyond recognition. PKD once coined a word "kipi", which was used by the author in this article and gave it a broader meaning. The entire society is a garbage society. The protagonist Peter is a teenager who specializes in picking up garbage and selling it to recyclers. Half of his limbs are prosthetic bodies. He lives with his mother and brother. His brother Charlie is the leader of the "Dead Bones", an anti-Kippi organization. One day, Charlie attacked the goddess "Alba" he had always admired. They tore Alba into pieces. From then on, Peter was obsessed with piecing "Alba" together. The original novel "Livido" is written in Italian. According to the author, the original title means "pale, blue-gray", and "The Successor" is its English title. There is an impressive passage in the article that may explain the idea of ​​the article: "They are not of the same species as us. Like the sarcophagi and totems of the past, those ancient vessels that carried souls into the afterlife, successors carry our souls into the future. I see in them a similar attempt to inscribe ourselves in the continuity of eternity. They are a symbol of our desire for eternity."

Thirty thousand years ago, the earth had a cold climate and food shortage. The northern hemisphere was covered by large glaciers. Human beings formed tribes and struggled to survive in the harsh environment. There is a psychic in each tribe, who is the representative of the tribe's spirit and wisdom and inherits the tribe's history and civilization through poetry and painting. Long, who never wanted to be a psychic, was obsessed with painting, and painting and its techniques were unique only to psychics. Long, who resisted becoming a psychic, eventually became a new generation of psychic. The young people represented by Long have their own ideas about the management and development of the tribe. As the conflict between old and new ideas becomes more and more obvious, the conflicts between tribes become more and more intensified, and survival problems such as food shortages become more and more serious, the problem of tribal differentiation finally breaks out!

"Brave New World" is a science fiction novel published by Huxley in 1932. It depicts a future society under mechanical civilization. In that world, humanity is stripped away by machinery. People in a state of "happiness" are pre-set castes and then hatched out of test tubes and baby bottles. The embryos are divided into different castes from low to high and receive different training. Those of the lower caste are short and ugly and take on the lowest jobs in society; those of the upper caste are tall and beautiful and constitute the upper class of society. In the new world, everyone is happy, and everyone's happiness is exactly the same. The book's reflections on technological development and concerns about the fate of mankind have made this book a banner in the "dystopian" literature of the twentieth century.

This book depicts a future society with highly developed technology and a precise and "perfect" life for human beings. In this "brave new world", people in a state of "happiness" are born in industrialized nurseries with their own preset castes, receive various educations that are content with the status quo, love mechanized work and lifestyle, and all uncertain factors have been eliminated. They have stability and unlimited "freedom", but they have lost their personality, art, marriage, and even emotions; desire has replaced love, pleasure has replaced happiness, and settings have replaced thinking. Those who occasionally have doubts about the status quo or have a rebellious mentality will be regarded as unstable factors and exiled to remote areas...

This is a science fiction novella. "The Time Machine" proposed the concept of "time travel" for the first time and can be called a classic masterpiece in science fiction. In 1895, he published a book under the name "The Time Machine", which caused a sensation and sold more than 6,000 copies within a few months. This established his reputation as a science fiction writer and pioneered the theme of time travel. Wells explores themes such as class inequality, evolution, and the relationship between science and society in his novels. With the help of the time machine in the novel, Wells led readers into the future hundreds of thousands of years later and even the end of the earth. Since then, the concept of the "fourth dimension" and the subject of "time travel" have been widely recognized.

This book is inspired by the life experience of Daniel Gadusek, a Nobel Prize winner who was once world-famous but later disgraced. It tells the story of the young American doctor Pelina who discovered a mysterious tribe and a group of mysterious residents called "sleepwalkers" by the locals while conducting anthropological research on a certain island in the Pacific in the 1950s. After discovering that these sleepwalkers were hundreds of years old and had severely degraded minds, Pelina began to suspect that their longevity was due to eating a rare species of sea turtle. In the end, Pelina managed to prove his case by smuggling some of the turtle meat back home, and won the Nobel Prize for it. However, his discovery not only failed to fulfill the human dream of immortality, but triggered a series of terrible chain reactions, which destroyed the island and also destroyed Pelina himself...

"I was just over 650 miles old," Helwood said. Time in this city depends on distance calculations. The people in this city open roads across mountains, build bridges across rivers, and drag the city forward forever. Moving forward is a lifeline! Once it stops, the broken and twisted gravitational field behind the city will tear everything into pieces... However, as long as there is a seed of doubt, it is enough to shatter all beliefs: Can this city really just move forward? Do we have to move forward as long as we live?

In the drought doomsday predicted by the science fiction god, grab the last glimmer of life! A masterpiece from Hugo Award winner Bacchi Galupi. A desolate and dangerous arid world! Drought is raging in tomorrow's world, and you have to bleed before you want to drink water. In the not-too-distant future, drought is raging around the world, making it feel like hell. Only with water can we have the capital to survive. The United States is full of deserts and has lost its former prosperity. State governments are fighting overtly and covertly to seize water rights by any means necessary. At this time, an ancient water rights file surfaced, completely rewriting the rules of the game - owning it means having priority water rights! An Qiu, a member of the secret special forces "Water Knife" in the casino, was ordered to investigate the truth, but found that people close to the files died mysteriously one by one, and the files were missing. He was forced into a desperate situation by betrayal and conspiracy, and fought alone! In this drought-ravaged world, if you want to drink water, you have to bleed first. If he wants to survive, An Qiu has no choice but to risk his life to regain the missing file!

"The city is dead," Webster said. In the distant future, mankind has hydroponic agriculture, genetic modification, and atomic energy, but it has also ushered in the collapse of society and the desolation of cities. Humanity has chosen to leave - to the countryside, to Jupiter, to forget. Webster's descendants gave dogs the ability to speak and read, and the smart, kind, and peace-loving dogs became the last guardians of human history. With the help of the robot Jenkins, dogs maintain a brotherhood with other animals and live in harmony. However, the remaining humans and mysterious alien creatures that still carry warlike genes have posed new threats.

After a fatal car accident, Herb Ash was cryogenically frozen awaiting replacement of his spleen. In a state of cryogenic suspended animation, he relived his life for the past six years - the CY30-CY30B binary galaxy far away from the earth, enclosed in a small dome, like a hermit, and could only rely on Linda Fox's music to survive. Ya, a god exiled from Earth to this planet, forces Herb to visit his ailing neighbor Ribis in a nearby dome. When Herb hesitantly stepped into the dome of Ribis, Ya's plan finally came to light... If God really exists and is exiled to an alien planet, how will he regain the authority of the earth from the hands of the devil?

The sequel to "Time Heist" reveals the mysteries of the super-time world layer by layer. After Lafite escaped from the underground concentration camp, he thought he was finally safe. But what he faces is a devastated world. The fierce battle has turned the city into ruins, and the ambitions of those who control hyper-time and space are gradually revealed...

The film "Call Me by Your Name" adapted from this novel won the 90th Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2018 and was nominated for a total of 4 awards. It was written by the gold medal director and screenwriter James Ivory and starred by the new generation of Hollywood movie star Timothée Chalamet. A love story that has made millions of people cry, it has been on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Amazon Bookstore, and Goodreads since its publication in 2007.

"12 Years a Slave" is a life legend about Solomon Northup, an African American in the 19th century, who tells the story of his struggle for love and family, and his struggle to return home. Since its publication, it has become a classic that has touched hundreds of millions of people around the world for centuries. In 2013, "12 Years a Slave" topped the bestseller list on Amazon in the United States, and was awarded the "Most Touching Book of the Year" in 15 countries including the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Germany. President Obama shed tears in tribute to it. In the same year, the movie "12 Years a Slave" adapted from the original work swept the Oscars, Golden Globes, and British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. Known as the black slave version of "The Shawshank Redemption", it shows the survival state of life in extreme environments. Solomon Northup, an African-American freedman living in New York State in the United States in the 19th century, enjoyed his time of freedom. However, black slave traders took advantage of his vision of getting rich through hard work and used deception to kidnap him and make him lose his status as a freedman.

Qi Yue fell into a strange time and space Combing a woman's hair without seeing her husband Living alone in another house, cold pot, cold stove, cold eyes What a joke Since I am the eldest wife in this family Of course I have the final say Good food, good drink and good accommodation. Let's keep the water from the well and the river. Fight me again, fight me again The surgical master scares you to death ---------------------------------------------------- Cover made by Mu Shuiyou! ! ! Hand drawn and original! ! ! VIP book club group: 251668182, genuine subscription is required to verify fan value.

When Yuan Zhi met Song Jiyun for the first time, Song Jiyun was plotting with her breast-brother to seize the family property; When Yuan Zhi met Song Jiyun for the second time, Song Jiyun was framed by her brother-in-law and framed others; When Yuan Zhi met Song Jiyun for the third time, Song Jiyun's naughty brother was finally no longer with her, but she was ogling his good brother... Shi can endure it, but he cannot. Yuan Zhi decided... To feed the tiger with his body and take in the witch Song Jiyun! The commemorative edition of "Nine Purple" will be released on September 11, 2022! Welcome everyone to pay attention!