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Supertoys Last All Summer Long, and Other Stories of Future Time

By Brian Aldiss

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| Hardcover | 9781841490434

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David is just a little boy, a little boy who loves his mother, and his teddy bear. David wants to make his mummy happy, and tell her he loves her, but can't quite seem to find the words.

His verbal communication center is giving him trouble again. He may have to go back to the factory.
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David is just a little boy, a little boy who loves his mother, and his teddy bear. David wants to make his mummy happy, and tell her he loves her, but can't quite seem to find the words.

His verbal communication center is giving him trouble again. He may have to go back to the factory.

For more than four decades Brian Aldiss has been confounding the limits of satire, poetry, and science fiction, creating stories from the well of dreamscapes that come up sharp against the cutting edge of our technological society.

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  • I bought this book primarily because of the "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" stories (as I really love A.I.). But the rest of the stories were so-so, except for a few like "Dark Society," "Headless," "A Matter of Mathematics," and "Galaxy Zee". I guess Stanley Kubrick was right when he said that Bri ... (continue)

    I bought this book primarily because of the "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" stories (as I really love A.I.). But the rest of the stories were so-so, except for a few like "Dark Society," "Headless," "A Matter of Mathematics," and "Galaxy Zee". I guess Stanley Kubrick was right when he said that Brian Aldiss' writing was either "brilliant [or] not so damned good".

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 232 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1841490431
  • ISBN-13: 9781841490434
  • Publisher: Orbit Book Co.
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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