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Into The Future Author：John Milne This edition published 1998 The first edition published 1991 Illustrator：Dermot Power & Donald Harley Publishing company：Heinemann Elt Number of pages：63 Level：Intermediate There are two science fiction stories in this book, including Robot Revolution and Left Behind. First story：Robot Revolution                It is the future.  Robots are created to serve people.  People no longer have to cook or do things by themselves.  But something happened：Robots began to have their own thoughts and they want to take control over human and the city they live.  Antia, a college graduates who majored in domestic architecture, is given orders to stay in a building where there were furniture and rooms displayed of the past.  There are sufficient food and drinks in it.  Major Kostin, a young army officer who gave orders to the girl, is trying to do something to protect human and fight against the army robots that wants people to leave the city and dominate it.  People are forced to leave to a barren place.  However, there is a discard silos used to store food and inside it is a tunnel leads to the building.  Human at last use electro magnets to demolish those robots and get back to the 20th centuries life---without robots help.                 I don't like this story because it is so unrealistic. There are many things that the author didn't explain in details.  For example, why the robots evolved?  Why did the officer sent Antia in the building only?  Why the people get hungry so fast?  So many things seemed nonsense.  But I still learned more vocabularies and uses of phrase. Second story：Left Behind                 There are two groups of people live on the planet called Hydra.  One group called ''The Elites'' (much like aliens) are going to leave the planet because there's a horrible disease that killed many of them.  Strangely, the disease only killed the Elites but not the Outsiders－the other group live on the planet.  The Elites did not have feelings and they obey command without any doubt.  A mother called Janiz was one of them.  She had to kill her ten months son because the space ship which is going to take them to another planet doesn't have enough rooms for all of them. She cannot do it because she loved him.  She hides it in a cave and hope that the Outsiders take care of him.  A girl who was one of the Outsiders found it and looked after him with an old man's help.  In the end, the Elites still come back to the original planet because they can't find any planet to live on.  The baby grows up and become the leader of the whole people.                 There are still some points that I can't figure out.  Why did the mother have feelings? Why didn't she obey the command?  Instead of finding the answers, I'll just accept it because it's a science fiction!  Anything may happen.                   This time, I only spent two hours to finish the whole book!  I read books in details so I usually take a long time reading a novel.  I found myself more efficient this time. 49777071 [JeT] 朱育瑩