Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5:: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Reader (Oxford Bookworms ELT) - Softcover

Dick, Philip; Hopkins, Andy; Potter, Joc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194792226 ISBN 13: 9780194792226

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2007

Synopsis

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six escaped androids. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.

CEFR B2
Word count 31,300

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Synopsis:

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0194792226
• ISBN 13: 9780194792226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128