Science fiction stories in European Portuguese

12 stories from A1 to C2

Science fiction, much of it set in a future Portugal: Lisbon in 2045 run by artificial intelligence, Lisbon in the year 2100 fighting the rising Tejo, a memory architect in a future Porto. Further out there is a night-shift pilot on a cargo ship near Saturn.

The genre is also about what technology does to people: a household robot that promises to help the Santos family, an artificial mind whose rights are argued in court, a scientist asking whether her lab's AI is becoming conscious, a marine biologist watching a coral colony hold on against extinction.

It runs from a single A1 story to two C2 stories, one about sound and one about time, so you can follow it through every level. Start with A Terra Vista do Espaço at A1, in which an astronaut called Ana sees the Earth from space for the first time, and O Robô da Cozinha at A2.

Each story page shows the opening in Portuguese with the English under every paragraph, and a glossary of key words. The whole story is in the reader, with audio for every sentence and tap-to-translate on every word.

A1 — Beginner

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A2 — Elementary

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B1 — Intermediate

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B2 — Upper Intermediate

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C1 — Advanced

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C2 — Mastery

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