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国王劳勃死后，艾德公爵因政治斗争失败送命，太子乔佛里登上铁王座。艾德的长子罗柏·史塔克为父报仇挥兵南下自立为王，公开和铁王座决裂。然而乔佛里的身份秘密被曝光，他的两个王叔为争王位先后起兵反叛，西面的铁群岛也开始蠢蠢欲动，一时间维斯特洛群雄纷起，战争冲突一触即发，五方势力僭越称王。诸王之争会像红色彗星的色泽一般血红，象征着浩劫的即将降临。与此同时，北疆的绝境长城危机四伏，加入守夜人的艾德私生子琼恩·雪诺不得不被迫做出抉择。而在东方大陆的丹妮莉丝·坦格利安虽然意外重新孵出火龙，但却失去了丈夫和部落，不得不带领族人艰难的奋斗。

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.

克拉克第一部堪称经典的科幻小说。小说开始的场面，即外星人的太空飞船突然降临人类各大主要城市，曾先后被多部影视剧所借鉴，位列“永恒经典”（All-time Best）排行榜第三位，其深远影响可见一斑。内容简介：外星人来到地球，给人类带来了高度发达的文明。最初的全球恐慌之后，人类欣喜地接受了来自外星文明的厚赠。战争消失了、瘟疫消失了，人类历史上的一切灾难都不复存在。但是，人类的社会、国家、民族等诸般价值观念也被彻底颠覆。几个世纪之后，人类已经和过去截然不同。他们已经不再是过去意义上的“人类”。是福是祸？外星人的目的何在？人类这一物种是否已经走到尽头？人类也许仍将延续。但是，它的童年时代一去不复返了！

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Adela Quested. During a trip to the Marabar Caves, Adela accuses Aziz of attempting to rape her. Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring out all the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British colonists who rule India. In A Passage to India, Forster employs his first-hand knowledge of India.　　本书是英国著名作家福斯特的代表作。二十世纪初，英国人穆尔夫人和阿德拉小姐前往印度，一个看望在那里任殖民官的儿子，另一个则是看望这位未婚夫。印度穆斯林医生阿齐兹出于热情和友谊，组织了不少人陪同两位客人前往当地名胜马拉巴山洞游览。在幽暗的山洞里，阿德拉小姐感觉似乎有人侮辱了她，于是掀起了一场轩然大波……