Bookworm. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader -- Star Zoo

Author: Gilbert
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Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Features: This book depicts a distant future, 500 years in the future, through the story of a 16-year-old girl who discovers an interstellar zoo after escaping her marriage. In that time, humans have forgotten what animals look like. Despite possessing high technology, commanding robots, and traveling freely between star systems, they have lost their valuable love and compassion. Their world is gray, monotonous, desolate, and bleak. The story implicitly contains the author's warning against human destruction of the environment and his earnest hope for humans to strengthen their awareness of protecting the Earth.