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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Retold by A. Hopkins and J. Potter
STAGE 5 - Fantasy & Horror
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.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 Ghost Stories
Retold by Rosemary Border
STAGE 5 - Fantasy & Horror
After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house!
We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 Ghost Stories Audio CD Pack
Retold by Rosemary Border
STAGE 5 - Fantasy & Horror
After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house!
We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 I, Robot - Short Stories
Isaac Asimov
Retold by Rowena Akinyemi
STAGE 5 - Fantasy & Horror
A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold.
But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings.
Isaac Asimov was one of the greatest
science-fiction writers, and these
short stories give us an unforgettable and terrifying vision of the future.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Starter New York Café
Michael Dean
STARTER - Fantasy & Horror
It is the year 2030, and an email message arrives at New York Café: 'I want to help people and make them happy!'
But not everybody is happy about the email, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Café.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
Retold by Judith Dean
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee.
With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Audio CD Pack
Retold by Judith Dean
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee.
With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Monkey's Paw Audio CD Pack
W. W. Jacobs
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor?
There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived.
The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw.
Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Omega Files - Short Stories
Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers.
Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Phantom of the Opera Audio CD Pack
Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers . . .
But who has actually seen him?
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