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Quotes from Super-Toys Last All Summer Long — Brian Aldiss

1925–2017 England

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An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

In Mrs. Swinton's garden, it was always summer. The lovely almond trees stood about it in perpetual leaf. Monica Swinton plucked a saffron-colored rose and showed it to David.

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

There have been mechanicals on the market with mini-computers for brains — plastic things without life, super-toys — but we have at last found a way to link computer circuitry with synthetic flesh.

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

"You and I are real, Teddy, aren't we?"
The bear's eyes regarded the boy unflinchingly. "You and I are real, David." It specialized in comfort.

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Aldiss (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.