Spanish Novels: Marte: 2052

Spanish Novels for Upper-Intermediates - B2 #19

by Paco Ardit

Looking for Spanish Novels?I know how tough it is to find good readings to learn a new language.You don't usually have a large vocabulary or are able to read long and complex sentences.You'd like to go right to the fun stuff, but maybe it's too hard for you now.A typical Spanish reader isn't interesting or just plain boring.But this book is not like that.Learning with Spanish Novels is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun. A Spanish Book for Upper-Intermediates (B2) Both Fun & Easy 2052 is the book number 18 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Upper-Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an upper-intermediate command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences and chapters. This is the year 2052. Our planet is about to colapse and the IASA is trying to launch the biggest spacial mission to Mars, before attempting to colonize the red planet. The crew is formed by 15 poor young people from the five the 'spacial volunteers'. Will they be able to complete the mission and come back safe to the Earth?This Spanish Book for Upper-Intermediates will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. This Upper-Intermediate Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward more advanced readings.Why Spanish NovelsShort sentencesShort chaptersEasy vocabularySimple grammarEveryday dialoguesAn Upper-Intermediate (B2) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish.From the First el año 2052 los recursos naturales del planeta están prácticamente agotados. Ya no queda casi nada de petróleo, y lo peor es que tampoco hay otras energías alternativas. Desde que las máquinas reemplazaron a los hombres en las fábricas, los niveles de desempleo están por encima del 50%. Los que tienen la suerte de conseguir un trabajo, apenas ganan lo suficiente para comer. Y el resto –los desempleados– sobrevive con la ayuda del gobierno. La cantidad de pobres en el planeta está en cifras récord.Uno de los grandes problemas actuales es la superpoblación. Según los últimos informes de la ONU, la población de la Tierra acaba de superar los 12000 millones de habitantes. No es ninguna en el año 2000 ya lo habían anticipado. En ese entonces los pronósticos para el 2050 estaban alrededor de esa cifra. Lo que no estaba dentro de los cálculos era la distribución de la población. Nadie hubiera creído que Norteamérica y Europa se iban a convertir en los continentes más poblados del planeta, pero esa era la nueva realidad.

Genres: Spanish Literature

182 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2020

About the author

Paco Ardit is the author of the Spanish Novels Series. He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1976. Since the early 1980’s he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He loves learning and teaching languages, reading books, and writing fiction. His mission is to create the best materials for language learners who don't want to settle for easy and boring.

Combining his experience in learning, languages and fiction writing he comes up with fun and engaging graded readers in multiple genres: Mystery, Detective Stories, Romance, Comedy, Drama, and more.

Reviews

[Ian Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another great novella from Paco Ardit. It’s at B2 upper-intermediate level so unless you want to be dipping into a dictionary or grammar every two minutes, you will need to have a pretty good understanding of conditionals, gerunds and the various past tenses. If you’re a bit shaky with the pluperfect or conditional forms, you might be better off reading some of Paco Ardit’s books at A1, A2 or B1 before you tackle this one. Also, be aware that the novel’s main characters are South American, so this book uses South American verb forms.
I won’t give away the plot. Suffice to say that it is gripping and for your money you not only get a thorough lesson in Spanish, you get an imaginative and entertaining sci-fi story.
This is the fourth B2 book of Paco Ardit’s that I have read in the last few months. I’m going to read the last one at this level before going on to read his C1 and C2 books (there are three of each at the moment). By then I think I might be ready to read some “real” (and that’s not casting any aspersions on Paco Ardit) Spanish and Latin American literature.

[Isabella · Rating 5 out of 5]

El final fue abrupto pero me gustó el libro en general. Al principio es muy distópico, un género que no es mi favorito, pero cuando empieza la trama de verdad fue interesante.

[Maggie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not like the book. The first five chapters were literally just a summary of what had happened since 2020. The characters were incredibly flat and static, and the plot was just way too difficult to follow. Only read if you absolutely have to!!

[Gillian Burles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ends rather abruptly but this book was the right level for me

[Jorg Pavel]

Es un poco tonto en cierto modo y muy rebuscado para mi imaginación. Pero es un buen libro para aprender español

[Robert Palmer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for reading Spanish. Another poor ending from El senor Ardit however.

[Dack Powell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great learning tool for upper intermediate, especially with the audiobook companion

[Melissa Regan · Rating 3 out of 5]

So start, exciting in the middle, Very rushed ending

[DavidO · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story was so over the top and unrealistic about how bad the future would be that I just found it impossible to read. Fans of dystopia stuff would probably like this.

[Cabecass · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite interesting

It's good to be having fun whilst improving. Quite an interesting theme and turn of events. Looking forward to the next book.