A Short Escape after Get Off Work

Science fiction × suspense × horror. Seven grotesque, bloody, ferocious and curious visions of the future, a feast for the senses that involves peeling off skin, sucking bones, and disemboweling the body. There are women who control everything and are dominated by desire, and there are men who sacrifice their bodies for love and are willing to become the other. Gender reversal, apocalyptic plague, alien invasion, pheromone control... Many science fiction settings like thought experiments reflect the real situation of marginalized people through flipping and deformation. When human beings lose control of their bodies, and when the language system that is regarded as a symbol of civilization completely collapses, is it necessary to regain control or abandon self-centeredness and accept more advanced intelligent life? By witnessing disaster, fear, oppression, and injustice, hidden corners are illuminated and different paths of survival are explored.

This novel creates a shocking "absurd man" - the protagonist Meursault who is indifferent to everything. He is indifferent to everything happening around him. He has no feelings about the death of his mother and even being sentenced to death...

The physical book of the same name is now on the market, a masterpiece in Ma Boyong's historical short novel "Jianwei" series! In the 14th year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shande, a small official in Chang'an City, suddenly received a task: to transport fresh lychees from Lingnan before the birthday of the imperial concubine. The shelf life of lychees is only three days, and Lingnan is more than 5,000 miles away from Chang'an, with vast mountains and rivers, making this an impossible task. For the sake of his family, Li Shande had no choice but to give it a try... The ancient costume version of the story of survival of a social animal, an epic about a little man caught in the cracks of the empire.

In the fourth room on the top floor of the haunted house, the woman was stabbed several times, and the scene was dripping with blood. However, the scene was in a secret room, so the woman was judged to have committed suicide. After that, strange noises came from the fourth room every night, accompanied by ghostly lights from time to time. Is it really the ghost of the deceased who is causing trouble? A psychic meeting is about to be held, but it turns into a crazy killing: an extra body appears out of thin air in the secret room, and a strange murder in the snow. Murders occur frequently in haunted houses, and all signs seem to indicate that ghosts are at work. Spiritualism, doppelganger, secret room mystery, precognitive dream murder... Is it a crazy murderer, or is there really a ghost taking revenge? What mystery is hidden in the fourth door in the haunted house?

"The Mousetrap" tells the story of a murder that occurred at No. 24 Pigeon Street, West Second District, London, on a snowy afternoon in the winter of 1948. Clues at the scene indicated that the murderer had fled to Monksville. On this evening, in the newly opened Monkswell Hotel, the young Reston couple welcomed five strange guests. Is the murderer among them? Does the danger still exist? In the afternoon of the next day, police officer Trott of the Bokosha Police Department also came to the hotel. He brought more terrible news. The wind and snow trapped everyone in the hotel, and a terrible "killing game" began.

Hans, who was born in a small town, was extremely talented and had excellent academic performance since childhood. After passing the state examination he was able to enter the seminary. In the seminary, the taciturn Hans was a solitary person, often attending classes alone. By chance, he met Hermann, and they had a good rapport. Unlike Hans, who was conscientious and obedient, Hermann was rebellious by nature and frequently had verbal conflicts with teachers, so he was expelled from school. After that, Hans felt lonely and the depressive life made him at a loss. After a serious illness, he chose to drop out of school and go home to become an ordinary worker...

"It's Summer Outside" is Jin Ae-ran's fourth short story collection, which includes seven works in total. Most of the protagonists in the story are experiencing "loss", losing their children, losing their father, losing someone who can communicate with them in their native language... Jin Ae-ran seems to intentionally crush the pain of all kinds of losses and evenly distribute it between the lines, so that the pain hits the readers' hearts from time to time. In this book, the author still maintains his role as an observer and recorder of urban life, and his narrative is plain and close to life. "It's Summer Outside" is the winning work of the 48th Dongren Literary Award, among which "The Silent Future" and "Where Do You Want to Go" won the author the 37th Lixiang Literary Award and the 8th Young Writers Award respectively. This time it is included in the "Collection of Jin Ailan's Works" and Di'an, winner of China's "People's Literature Award·Novel Award", is invited to write a preface.

The first edition of "Invisible Cities" was published in November 1972 by Einaudi Verlag in Turin. At the time of the book's publication, from late 1972 to early 1973, Calvino had spoken about it in several newspaper articles and interviews. The following is an introduction to this new edition of the "Oscar" series using words from a lecture given by Calvino in a master's class in writing at Columbia University in New York on March 29, 1983. The lecture was originally in English, but the Italian text is used here. It is based on two interviews conducted in 1972 and 1973 and has mostly not been published in Italy. There is no recognizable city in "Invisible Cities". All the cities are fictitious; I gave each of them a woman's name. The book is organized into short chapters, each of which should provide an opportunity to reflect on a particular city, or cities in general.