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Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

by Brian Aldiss

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Aldiss, in a January 1997 interview with Wired Magazine, says
that in the early 90's he Stanley Kubrick made two collaborative
attempts to turn his story "Supertoys..." into a script. "I can't
tell you how many directions we went. My favorite was when David
and Teddy got exiled to Tin City, a place where the old model
robots, like old cars, were living out their days. Stanley
definitely had the ambition to make another big science fiction
movie, but in the end, we didn't get anywhere. Stanley called in
Arthur Clarke and asked him to provide a scenario, but he didn't
like that, either....

"I have a feeling, having worked with him, that he hasn't got the
dashing confidence of youth," says Aldiss. "But of course, with
age, you acquire a different sort of confidence." The director's
creative vision, meanwhile, is clearer than ever. "Stanley
embraces android technology," Aldiss notes, "and thinks it might
eventually take over -- and be an improvement over the human
race."

The original drafts made by Aldiss and Kubrick became the
starting point for his as-yet unfinished project A.I. Following
the departure of Aldiss, Kubrick subsequently worked with authors
Ian Watson and Bob Shaw. The film is currently under
pre-production in London; few further details are currently
known.

"Supertoys..." appeared first in Harper's Bazaar, and is й1969
Brian Aldiss, all rights reserved
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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.

"Isn't it lovely?" she said.

David looked up at her and grinned without replying. Seizing the
flower, he ran with it across the lawn and disappeared behind the
kennel where the mowervator crouched, ready to cut or sweep or
roll when the moment dictated. She stood alone on her impeccable
plastic gravel path.

She had tried to love him.