Death is a Lonely Thing

Liu Cixin, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and other world-class science fiction masters highly praise it, and authoritative international media such as The Guardian, Daily Mail, and The New York Times Book Review have praised it! "Death" and "loneliness" have been hot topics in human history and literature for a long time. However, Lao Lei used humorous language and suspenseful and slightly absurd plot design to eliminate the heaviness of this topic. In the late 1940s, in the forgotten town of Venice, California, a poor mystery writer sat in an empty tram car late at night when a storm hit. Along with the whine of the tram, a drunk man sat behind him, mumbling some words about death, but the writer never dared to turn his head and look at this man's appearance. After getting out of the car, he found a body in the dark canal. Over the next few days, a series of mysterious accidents begin to occur to those around him. The bedridden canary old woman, the lousy hairdresser, the shrewd police detective, the female singer who never opens her door, the little old man with a face like Edgar Allan Poe, the outdated Hollywood actress... In this foggy town, who will be next on the death list? Who is the murderer hiding in the dark?

A challenge letter to all smart brains! The brain-burning ceiling of science fiction × the end of time's conspiracy - a Blizzard Villa case that happened on a spaceship. A locked-room murder scene that affects the basic rules of the universe. The immigration spaceship "Abyss" encountered an extremely strange accident. The speed of time led to numerous doubts, and the passengers on the ship fell into a dangerous situation. Eternal time, changing time, intertwined time, Moebius time, mirror time... And when the protagonists passed through the fog and came to the end and end of the time trick, they felt that the universe and human nature were crazy and mysterious. All science fiction reasoning fans are welcome to come and challenge! In a cosmic disaster, recognize the infinite magnificence of time.

21 wonderful works by Ray Bradbury, the master of illusions - ghosts, fairs and magic shows, dead dogs, crazy inventors, cemeteries and adolescence. From the unbridled fantasy about the past and future to the unimaginable magical reality, from the exquisite sketches that make people laugh, to the timeless stories with magnificent settings, it opens the door to the fantasy world for us. Tender Murder tells the funny, poignant, and satirical story of an octogenarian couple who have spent their entire lives together and loathed each other as they plot to murder each other. Follow in the footsteps of Ray Bradbury and experience the various aspects of the world in the book!

A quiet and beautiful dead body suddenly appeared in the locked suitcase in the corner of the attic. A unique specimen on the autopsy table tells the story of his life. In the traveling circus, complicated and confusing crimes are staged one after another. In a small town where no one got off the bus, a stranger broke the peace. Ventriloquists, androids, and lifelike marionettes. In the silent big house, the owner never leaves home and the strange smiling man. The past, present and future intersect here. Literary master Ray Bradbury uses 20 colorful thrillers to reveal the fears, desires and loves hidden deep in our consciousness.

When humans completely tame a planet, they will then begin to tame the people on the planet. Passenger Pigeon, a staff member of the Deep Space Amnesia Society, was assigned to perform a mission and met Dudu, a "ground connection" with a complex identity and extraordinary abilities. The two adventured along the way, witnessing the vitality and beauty of this planet, as well as the weirdness and pain here. As Passenger Pigeon's memory is recalled, the crisis and truth surrounding the entire Philippine planet are also revealed. Hallucinogenic mushrooms, zombie wildebeests, a family of warriors, a wild plastic surgery hospital, cyber cultivators... They all together form this absurd, capricious and romantic road story. A biopunk full of passion and fantasy, a "Scavengers Reign" for the brave. Here, even if everything is disciplined, we still have to live romantically!

On an ordinary day, strange things happened all over the world: a tree trimmer in Florida was blown off a high-rising work platform by an abnormally strong wind; an old country woman in Ohio was attacked by a mutated mouse without eyes; a university professor in the United Kingdom was trapped in a large pumpkin at the local agricultural and sideline products market. And all this bizarreness gradually points to "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" that has been circulated for three hundred years - a collection of nursery rhymes with terrifying magic. Mother Goose's magic is once again released into the real world, and it falls to Cassandra, Ezekiel and Stone to track down the long-lost spell book before the true magical power in the nursery rhyme is fully released...

The eccentric Mr. You likes to walk at night, but is arrested for it; the old lady who wants to see the true face of God flies into space risking her own life; the fat freak show actor tattoos the unknown he is about to experience on his body in order to keep his job; the couple who hide in the mountains and forests discover a secret door in the old house...

After committing the crime impulsively, the murderer becomes mysophobic. How long will he stay at the scene? The actor who played Hitler was too involved in the drama. How should the farce in Nuremberg end? The prophecy of the time traveler has come true. Will he be able to meet his younger self a hundred years later?

A shy undertaker confides his secrets to the corpse; a flourishing writer suddenly announces his closure; a suspicious resentful woman thinks her lover has a body; innocent children play strange games; a priest who listens to a stranger's confession on Christmas Eve ends up needing his forgiveness...

The poet disappeared together with his wife and villa in his last poem; the man who was shaving in preparation for the funeral had forgotten who the deceased was; two priests turned against each other because of an old news in an old newspaper; the old nurse who was traveling alone on the train sat opposite a "ghost" passenger who was dying and looked sick...

"Eyes, huge eyes, watch people's life and death." In the new era where mobile phones have become antiques, special eyes can give everyone the life they want. A blind girl is accused of killing her father, an old woman with severed fingers sings an incomprehensible ballad, and a group of friends who believe in science are like-minded because of their love, but because of different ideas, they choose a different future. Destiny takes everyone in different directions. Between illusion and reality, who is the maker of order? Human nature cannot stand the test! Humanity is migrating to the digital world, and the predicted great turmoil is about to break out. Is the world you live in real or illusory? Dreams will tell you the answer.