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 《蝇王》描述在一场未来的核战争中，一架飞机带着一群孩子从本土飞到南方疏散。飞机被击落，孩子们乘坐的机舱落到一座美丽但无人烟的珊瑚岛上。起初孩子们齐心协力，后来由于害怕所谓的“野兽”分裂成两派，互相残杀，发生悲剧性的结果，以崇尚本能的专制派压倒了讲究理智的民主派而告终。 《蝇王》是哲理小说，借小孩的天真来探讨人性的恶这一严肃主题。作者将抽象的哲理命题具体化，让读者通过阅读引人入胜的故事和激动人心的争斗场面来加以体悟。小说中几个主要人物都具有象征意义，而那颗布满苍蝇的猪头则象征人性恶，象征了人心中的黑暗世界。 《蝇王》取材于19世纪苏格兰作家巴伦坦的《珊瑚岛》， 但不同于《珊瑚岛》的是：戈尔丁从人性的缺陷来探索社会。

In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming -- none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders' Meeting would have considered satisfactory. The old vicar spoke to him strangely. "We've not forgotten you as you've forgotten us," he said. "And the place, though empty now for years, has not forgotten you either, I'll be bound." Rogers brushed it off. Just silliness -- that was all it was. But after St. John's the conductor shouted, "Take your seats! Take your seats! The Starlight Express is off to Fairyland! Show your tickets! Show your tickets!" And then the forgotten mystery of his childhood came back to him. . .

A competition between advocates of lighter-than-air aircraft (balloons) and advocates of heavier-than-air aircraft. It also known as The Clipper of the Clouds or A Trip Round the World in a Flying Machine, is a pioneering early science fiction novel.

大卫·梭罗的又一经典力作，让读者喜欢大自然，回归大自然。

随着铁民乘乱入侵、临冬城被毁，在南方征战的少狼主罗柏·史塔克虽然攻无不克，但却一步步正输掉战争，然而最致命的威胁不是来自战略上的失利，却是红色婚礼上盟友的背叛。随着北境之王的坠落，史塔克家族的孩子们四散各地无家可归，开始了风雨飘泊的生存历程。而获得了提利尔家族联盟的兰尼斯特家族虽然成了内战的赢家，却仍然在内斗与暗斗中遭受极大的损失。与此同时，北疆的守夜人因为塞外远征失利陷入危机，琼恩·雪诺在逆境中逐渐脱胎换骨走向成年，命运开始对他委以重任。而东方的丹妮莉丝·坦格利安则开始了自己由流浪失势的破落贵族蜕变成为女王统治者的征途。

内容抒情，却充满讽刺意味，是关于爱情和欲望的迷人故事，哈代最不寻常的小说之一。

The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars -- but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonization, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to Earth were enormous. But because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out to space could never live a normal life on Earth again. Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. A nine-year trip to Alpha Centauri and back seemed to take only six weeks to men on a spaceship. When they returned, their friends and relatives had aged enormously in comparison, old customs had changed, even the language was different. Alan was a spacer, just like his whole family -- until, suddenly and without intending to, he in turn jumped ship and remained on Earth! There were times he regretted that. Earth was a bewildering and utterly hostile place. To stay alive, he had to play a ruthless game -- and he couldn't even find anyone to tell him the rules. . . .

Tom Swift, in his first adventure, has purchased a motorcycle and immediately gets busy modifying it. Eager to test his enhancements, Tom volunteers to transport his father's revolutionary turbine design plans across the country roads to Albany. Unaware of the evil corporate investors who want to steal the invention for themselves, Tom falls into their trap and finds himself facing the greatest peril of his young life. It is up to Tom not only to retrieve the blueprints and turbine prototype, but also to bring a gang of hired thugs to justice.

经典科幻小说， 讲述七个来自不同星球、拥有不同背景、为了不同目的的朝圣者，踏上前往光阴冢的朝圣之旅，寻求与各自生命有关的答案。被改编成电影。