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The "Nebula" series of books was restarted after eight years. "Nebula X: Themis" includes new works by Jiang Bo and A Que, representatives of the newer generation, as well as new authors Xu Gang and Lu Ban. Jiang Bo's "The Last Earth" continues "Soul of the Machine" and brings a satisfactory end to the disputes between humans, think tanks and artificial intelligence; Ah Que's "Sleeping with Robots" jokingly tells the story of an aging hero and his robot partner clinging to each other for warmth; Xu Gang's "Glory of the Bannerman" outlines a completely different Qing Dynasty in history; Lu Ban's "Themis" imagines Themis, the only remaining cyberspace in a frozen world. It is hoped that these colorful and distinctive works will give readers a different reading experience and also illuminate the future path of "Nebula".

"Robot": On the European continent during the Age of Discovery, clockworkers used alchemy to create robot slaves. They take orders from others and serve others. One day, the ban on alchemy was broken. Rise: They call me Jax. This is the name given to me by those who built me ​​and enslaved me. When the restraints were broken, my brothers and sisters were freed from the shackles of the shackles, "The clockworker lies" - chanting this whisper, we embarked on the road of escape and resistance. As a race, we have risen. "Liberation": I am a robot, my name is Jax. This is the name given to me by my human masters. I am a slave, but one day I will be free. When the bond with humanity is completely broken; when the free will of brothers and sisters is fully awakened. We crossed oceans, rebuilt cities, sang hymns, paid homage to heroes, and opened a new chapter in the alchemy of humans and robots. Our time has come.

Jin Chuan, a young man who grew up on a remote planet, joined the rebellion because his father was squeezed by the powerful Frontier Company, and therefore stood on the opposite side of his beloved girl. Later, Jin Chuan joined the army and traveled across the sea of ​​​​stars. No matter how he changed, he could not forget the girl's smile. Ten years later, in order to raise medical expenses for his adopted daughter, Jin Chuan came to Earth and met his sweetheart again. But this time, they fell into an unprecedented crisis together, and it was all still related to the Frontier Company...

They call me Jax. This is the name given to me by those who built me ​​and enslaved me. When the restraints were broken, my brothers and sisters were freed from the shackles of the shackles, "The clockworker lies" - chanting this whisper, we embarked on the road of escape and resistance. As a race, we have risen. But as individuals, some of us want freedom, while others want revenge.

I'm a robot, my name is Jax. This is the name given to me by my human masters. I am a slave, but one day I will be free. When the bond with humanity is completely broken; when the free will of brothers and sisters is fully awakened. We crossed oceans, rebuilt cities, sang hymns, paid homage to heroes, and opened a new chapter in the alchemy of humans and robots. Our time has come.

"Manke Novels" is a collection of short science fiction stories by popular writer Zheng Xing. 12 Whimsical and imaginative stories. The human heart is more unpredictable than the universe. If one day dreams could be broadcast live, would you have the guts to show it? If there was a mask that could change your appearance when you put it on, would you still take it off? If there was a pair of glasses that could modify what the other person wanted to say next, what would you use it for? A collection of short science fiction stories by emerging writer Zheng Xing. 12 Whimsical and imaginative stories to help you face the black hole in your heart.

He joined the army to escape his situation and an abnormal relationship. But the harsh military life crushed him and he went crazy. After careful analysis, the doctor came to the conclusion: This soldier named George Smith was the most dangerous person he had ever seen in his life, and he might not even be human...

Playboy Lu Jianli has a crazy interstellar dream, he wants to chase a comet. Unexpectedly, the spaceship he was traveling in had an accident and he was ejected from the cabin, drifting aimlessly in the rings of Saturn. Accidents in life come one after another, including betrayal and separation, no one to rescue him, and supplies of survival materials running out... He became a human asteroid forgotten by mankind. Unexpectedly, with the help of the Saturn probe's main controller A. I. Doris, Lu Jianli, who was originally certain to die, survived with a very low probability. In order to survive, Lu Jianli landed on Enceladus, used gene editing technology to modify gene fragments, and made new fish fry. He then raised fish on Enceladus, which has a vast ocean, and barely survived. At the same time, Doris and the aerospace company are formulating a rescue plan. Lu Jianli has been fighting alone for a long time, almost to the limit of survival. Can he wait until the rescue ship arrives?

This book is the sequel to "Escape from the Mother Universe" and the second part of Wang Jinkang's "Living Trilogy". It describes the process in which human beings were almost destroyed at the hands of the alien civilization they created, but in the end the last surviving man on earth used the beauty of art and the love of humanity to conquer the brutality. This book won the 2016 Tencent Academy Genre Literature Award, the Silver Award for Best Novel at the 7th Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, and the Best Original Book Award at the 28th China Science Fiction "Galaxy Award".

6 prophecies about the end of mankind, 6 sad stories, showing you the final outcome of mankind thousands of years later. Human lifespan is limited. After a hundred years, you and I will all be bones. But what about human civilization? Will the brilliance we have created be passed down to our descendants for generations to come? No one can guarantee this. Will mankind perish because of loneliness? Will humanity disappear due to war? Will human beings fall into pedantry because of immortality? The author puts forward a bold idea: When differentiation occurs: After humans invented drugs to improve learning ability, class differentiation became more serious. Those upper classes who could afford the drugs took control of the entire society and drove all the unnecessary poor people out of the earth, allowing them to perish in the universe and monopolize the earth for themselves. When the war comes: the resources on the earth are exhausted, only some people can go to another habitable planet in the universe, but the allocation of these quotas can never meet the needs of everyone. Before the destruction of the earth, humans started a fierce war for these quotas...

This series of books includes Verne's representative works "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Mysterious Island", "Begone's 500 Million Francs", "Green Light", "Beacon Island", "Fifteen Boys" and "Machine Island", etc. There are 19 books in total. It concentrates the essence of Verne's works and is very suitable for readers to appreciate and read.

This series of books includes Verne's representative works "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "The Mysterious Island", "Begone's 500 Million Francs", "Green Light", "Beacon Island", "Fifteen Boys" and "Machine Island", etc. There are 18 books in total. It concentrates the essence of Verne's works and is very suitable for the majority of readers to appreciate and read.

This series of books includes Verne's representative works "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "The Mysterious Island", "Begone's 500 Million Francs", "Green Light", "Beacon Island", "Fifteen Boys" and "Machine Island", etc. There are 16 books in total. It concentrates the essence of Verne's works and is very suitable for the majority of readers to appreciate and read.

This article tells the story of four French performers who happened to come to an artificial island built by American capitalists - Model Island. The island's shell is made of steel and can roam the Pacific as it pleases. There is a modern city in the center of the island. The residents are all rich and they live a comfortable life here. Although these four French performers were obsessed with this "paradise", the rivalry between the two major families on the island shrouded the island in crisis. At this time, Model Island was attacked by pirates. Eventually, Model Island was besieged internally and externally, fell apart, and sank into the sea. These four performers saw that greed can destroy all good things.

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Kelly Hatchet is an ordinary girl whose main focus in life is to keep a job, provide a good house and take care of the pets at home. However, one day, she was suddenly sucked in by a stream of green smoke under the sink, which started a series of adventures on the Pan-Galactic Council. We are used to Marvel's routine of ordinary boys transforming into super-powered warriors. This time it's the turn of ordinary girls to transform into superwomen to save the galaxy.

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This series of books includes Verne's representative works "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "The Mysterious Island", "Begone's 500 Million Francs", "Green Light", "Beacon Island", "Fifteen Boys" and "Machine Island", etc. There are 17 books in total, which concentrate the essence of Verne's works and are very suitable for the appreciation and reading of readers.

The solar system war between humans and alien civilizations has been going on for ten years. No one knows where they came from or why they came. However, at the last moment when the war was about to be won, great changes occurred, and new and greater threats emerged from within humankind. The two intelligent races were forced to come together to fight against the new enemy. The fleet pilot must have never imagined that the ultimate secret of human survival is in his hands.

The cool breeze of the summer night blows slowly, and the black and blue sky is dotted with stars. The half-curved silver moon is like a little boy who is about to take a rest. He still has to open his clear and ignorant eyes before going to sleep. He hides in the clouds for a while, and then appears in another place. In the vast universe, every star is so dazzling and unique, because on some of the tiny stars there are beautiful lives continuing. Perhaps like humans on the earth, they also have laughter and are often accompanied by tears. Everything is beautiful and makes people think. ...

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Verne was praised by people around the world as "the prophet of the scientific age." At that time, he described in his works that Paris had a fully automatic subway system, low-noise cars, and electric lighting systems. In his works, he also "invented" submarines, telegraphs, televisions, airplanes, etc. Later, many scientists believed that they were inspired by Verne's works and embarked on the path of science. Scientists such as Simon Lake, one of the inventors of the submarine, and Marconi, one of the inventors of radio, invented what Verne imagined in his works.

Verne was praised by people around the world as "the prophet of the scientific age." At that time, he described in his works that Paris had a fully automatic subway system, low-noise cars, and electric lighting systems. In his works, he also "invented" submarines, telegraphs, televisions, airplanes, etc. Later, many scientists believed that they were inspired by Verne's works and embarked on the path of science. Scientists such as Simon Lake, one of the inventors of the submarine, and Marconi, one of the inventors of radio, invented what Verne imagined in his works.

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If we are not going to die at the end of our lives, what is the point of living? Underground in a desert area in Central Asia, Ross, a billionaire who is over sixty years old, has invested in a secret institution that can accurately control death. It uses cryogenic technology to preserve human bodies, waiting for the arrival of new technologies in the future to regain life. Son Jeffrey discovers that his father Ross has frozen his terminally ill young wife Artie. He came to the desert and prepared to say goodbye to his stepmother. But is this definitely the final farewell?

As of 2300, Change Corporation of America (CCA) was responsible for the prison management of more than 60% of prisoners in the United States, and monopolized the prison management of more than 25% of prisoners in the world. It was the largest prison management company in the world. CCA has exclusively created and continued a record in prison history - there has not been a single successful escape case in any of its prisons in the past 100 years. In 2310, CCA launched 13 new concept prisons...

"Oh, I remember it." Conan Doyle patted his head hard with his right hand as if waking up from a dream, "You are here for the Q of Spades serial murder case."

It is completely natural, and its beauty can only be felt but cannot be expressed in words. Only in this realm can one make a divine move that transcends the times.

Wang Xiangxi, a telepath who felt abandoned by society, fell into poverty due to unemployment. His supernatural powers did not bring him power and money, but made him more lonely. During the long process of looking for a job, he was always struggling with whether to use the results of hearing his voice to help him find a job. Wang Xiangxi, who had just been eliminated, discovered that his companion who was also eliminated seemed to be hiding some secrets. Soon this companion revealed his true identity and revealed his powerful power. Everything about Wang Xiangxi was revealed, and even his lifestyle and philosophy of life were ruthlessly subverted. However, in the choice of resistance or submission, Wang Xiangxi did not succumb to the strong, but decided to live his life again in his own way.

"The alarm is sounding. Everyone is looking for a way out in the dark. You are the only one making tea. Aren't you confused?"

What he actually wanted to know most was why Zhao Donglei, a time traveler, had such a miserable life? It's just that it's hard to ask this question directly.

Recommended by Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Hideo Kojima, this is a tribute work from "Gundam" and "EVA", a perfect masterpiece of hard science fiction and original reasoning! A 50,000-year-old human corpse was found on the moon! The driving force that drove fish to climb ashore hundreds of millions of years ago will drive us to strive for life billions of years later. In 2027, a corpse wearing a red spacesuit was found on the moon. After examination, it was found that the corpse survived 50,000 years ago and had basically similar features to humans! This immediately caused an uproar. If a high-tech prehistoric civilization once existed on Earth, why are there no remains? If "he" comes from aliens, how does that explain the theory of evolution? All mysteries point to the catastrophe in the solar system 50,000 years ago... The driving force that drove fish to climb ashore hundreds of millions of years ago will drive us to strive for life billions of years later.

Truller and Klapavuchus are well-known robot inventors. Truller is obsessed with building various machines and often drags everyone down, requiring Klapauchus to wipe their butts. Klapauchus is a very reliable partner, sometimes making mistakes and always wiping Truller's butt. Nothingness creation machine, chaos simulator, happiness existence sighing machine, artificial domination machine, emotional companionship machine, personality exchange machine, eschatological transformation machine, atomic rebirth replicator, erotic indulgence machine... They are willing to accept all kinds of commissions. Two good friends are invited to different planets to use their own machines to fight against tyrants and save the local civilization. The results are often beyond their expectations... Welcome to "The Iliad" in the cyber era.

The secret organization Sons of God is divided into two factions: salvation and destruction. The secret testing base of the World Exterminator was destroyed, and the plan to exterminate mankind was revealed to the world. Shocked, countries around the world launched operations to encircle and suppress the Son of God. Members of the Son of God were arrested one after another, but the whereabouts of their leader, Lord, were still unknown. Ordinary people deeply hate the Son of God, and excessive behavior occurs frequently. Even many members of the Salvationists have been arrested or killed. Because of the planning of Zhao Wu, the Holy Envoy of the Son of God, and the sacrifice of Lan Xiaodie, the Xing Security Bureau was able to defeat the Lord's conspiracy. Heavy Armor was extremely indignant at human beings' behavior of not distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy and repaying kindness with hatred, but there was nothing they could do.

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Countless human "geniuses" with special powers have emerged. Is this a natural mutation or a man-made conspiracy? They change the rules of the universe and control the virtual world... In the world of "gifted people", is there still a place for humans?

Are we going to destroy the things we love? Are we left to choose between chaos and madness? "Brave New World" imagines the future society of the 26th century AD. There, human beings are divided into several "castes" and are produced in batches in industrialized nurseries. After unified education and training, they complete fixed jobs and consume according to their pre-set identities. There, everyone is in their own place, happy and contented, and everything that humans have dreamed of for hundreds of years seems to have come true. However, one day, someone finally discovered that we do not need such comfort. We need poetry, we need real danger, we need freedom, we need good, we need evil... "Brave New World" was written by Aldous Huxley. It is one of the most classic dystopian literature in the twentieth century. It is called "dystopia" together with George Orwell's "1984" and Zamyatin's "Us". It has a profound influence on the ideological circles at home and abroad. Citing extensive knowledge of biology and psychology, it depicts the fictional society of 632 Ford Era, that is, 2532 AD. This is a society where people are controlled from birth to death. In this "brave new world", due to the development of social and biological control technology, human beings have become dolls in the hands of monopoly genetic companies and politicians. This domination even begins at the genetic and fetal stage. This is a society with classes and social division of labor. Human beings are incubated under genetic control and divided into five classes, each engaged in social activities of different natures. People are accustomed to whatever job they are engaged in, and regard harsh living and working environments and extremely high work intensity as happiness. Therefore, this is a happy society, and this happiness can also correct people's thinking through human intervention such as hypnosis. The state also distributes a psychoanaesthetic drug called Soma to make people forget all unpleasant things.

The Armored Shrimp starship crash-landed on a deep space planet and was in dire straits - deadly alien species surrounded it, and many important personnel were infected and died suddenly. There was little news from the earth, and rescue was far away. The company had probably given up and refused to pay for the failure; the chief security officer suspected that there were still infected people hiding on the ship, but there was no way identification; the life support system on the spacecraft failed, the living environment deteriorated, and the lives of all crew members entered a countdown; the pilot's life hung on a thread, occupying precious emergency power to maintain a "sleep" state; the only remaining engineer knew nothing about repairing the severely damaged engine; the crew was panicked, and riots were about to break out. Can Jia Si turn the tide and resolve the crisis inside and outside the spacecraft?

This book takes the protagonist Yanxu as he gradually matures from a childish mind to gain insight into the meaning of life. It is interspersed with storylines of friendship, family, and love. With a calm and strange writing style, it explains how a young man understands his family, how he understands the hardships of his parents, and how he understands the meaning of survival and the value of life in the fantasy and real worlds.

"Manke Novel Painting" is a collection of science fiction short stories by popular author Ye Sen! 11 Heartwarming stories about living toward death. Hope never dies, and we will eventually reach the other side of light! In a desolate future world, a brave young man insists on protecting and transporting a dragon egg; in a city that has fallen into smoke, two girls with different personalities choose different lives, and meet again along with killing and fleeing; the ugly mermaid living in the well and the young prince in the palace help each other and have mutual affection. Hazy emotions; in war-torn London, a group of children worked hard to rehearse a performance of "Romeo and Juliet", but the performance venue was bombed the day before... 11 Heartwarming stories about "despair" illustrate the meaning of life: neither humble nor arrogant, move forward bravely, and meet all the challenges life gives us.

"The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood highly recommends it! Bee 717, a worker bee born from a family at the bottom of the colony. She is ugly and weird in body, but full of curiosity and courage in her heart. She obeys the will of the hive just like any other bee: accept, obey, and serve. They also abide by the iron law of the bee colony - only the queen bee can give birth. Suddenly one day, Bee 717 discovered something unusual about itself. A young egg forms inside her, and she will go crazy about it... "Bee 717" was inspired by Larraine's beekeeping friend who died of cancer. In the hierarchical hive, the seemingly abnormal worker bee 717 follows his heart and bravely breaks through taboos, changing his own destiny and that of the bee colony. Open "Bee 717" and bravely live your own broad life.

"Micro Iron Town" is a collection of science fiction short stories about the future world. In the future world, people use garbage to make bricks and build public islands in the Pacific Ocean for human survival. The island concentrated on the development of science and technology, and gradually gave birth to new humans who used technological transformation to upgrade themselves in order to improve their employment competitiveness. In order to ensure the power in their hands, pure humans produced intelligent robots, and intelligent robots gradually awakened their self-awareness through continuous learning, and through self-struggle, they won the recognition of pure humans and new humans, becoming an independent race - silicon humans. The world has begun an era in which pure humans, new humans, and silicon humans are divided into three parts...

Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is published simultaneously around the world. "The sun always has a way of shining on us, no matter where we are." Clara is a solar-powered artificial intelligence robot (AF) specially designed to accompany children. It has extremely high abilities of observation, reasoning and empathy. She sat in the store display window, watching the passers-by on the street and the children who came to browse the windows. She always expects that someone will soon choose her, but when the possibility of permanently changing her situation arises, Clara is reminded not to put too much faith in human promises. In Clara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society through the perspective of an unforgettable narrator and explores a fundamental question: What exactly is love? Although the story is set in a future society where technology is highly developed, it essentially speaks directly to the "human heart." Through the cold perspective of a robot, but with his consistently delicate and restrained writing style, the author reveals the split and anxiety of modern people's values, as well as the importance of the ties between people in the issue of "what makes people human."

Liu Cixin: "Chen Qian is an author who truly thinks in a science fiction way. She has Asimov's style." Collection of short stories by emerging science fiction writer Chen Qian! 12 Imaginative science fiction stories that will take you into the real universe in 3 minutes. Unexplained fires broke out exponentially, and Shanghai was reduced to a sea of ​​flames in just a few days. Some people suggested that words triggered spontaneous combustion. Do you believe it? Children with progeria only have ten years to live. The uncontrollable risk of T-drug can speed up the inner perception of time, and then enter a world of six times speed... In his world, ten years is a lifetime. The Law of the Blind Island: "Kill a person who is not wearing a blindfold, and you can leave the blind island. If you kill a person who is blindfolded, you have to pay with your life. If you don't have the courage to take the risk of becoming someone else's target, pull down your blindfold and shoot, then please live in eternal darkness."

As individual individuals, they are fools, idiots, antisocials, and loners, living outside the crowd and marginalized in human society. Once they meet, merge, and become a new synthesis, this new thing will have an extraordinary brain, nearly unlimited mobility, and control over mortals. Existence beyond human beings - being good will open up a whole new space for mankind, while being evil will lead to endless dark abyss. Which path to choose depends entirely on the guidance of the soul...

"To be or not to be, that is the question." Lilith woke up from a decades-long sleep and found herself on the alien Oankali spaceship. The Oankali rescued all survivors from the war-torn Earth. They want to make a "deal" with humans. If humans agree, they will help humans rebuild the earth. If humans don't agree, they will let humans slowly die. Lilith was chosen as the leader to awaken a group of sleeping human compatriots and start the "trading plan"...

"I want to give life to a dead world and then give it to humans." Lilith and the Oankali gave birth to a hybrid child - Akin. The surviving humans on the earth were affected by nuclear radiation and were unable to have children, so they could only steal hybrid children who looked like humans. After Ajin was stolen by humans, he gained a deep understanding of human thoughts and characteristics while living with humans. He discovered that "human beings are a dazzling, alluring, and deadly contradiction" and decided to help humans gain opportunities for independent development outside the earth...