Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time
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 he 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.
Contents:
- Foreword : Attempting to Please
- Supertoys Last All Summer Long
- Supertoys When Winter Comes
- Supertoys in Other Seasons
- Apogee Again
- III
- The Old Mythyology
- Headless
- Beef
- Nothing in Life is Ever Enough
- A Matter of Mathematics
- The Pause Button
- Three Types of Solitude
- Steppenpferd
- Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb
- Dark Society
- Galaxy Zee
- Marvells of Utopia
- Becoming the Full Butterfly
- A Whiter Mars: A Socratic Dialogue of Times to Come
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (1925-2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He wrote the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.
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