Supertoys Last All Summer Long And Other Stories of Future Time by Brian Aldiss

Supertoys Last All Summer Long : And Other Stories of Future Time by Brian Aldiss seems to have been published to take advantage of the movie release of AI. The title story and its sequel contained in this book were the basis for the film. The stories themselves are excellent however I cannot say the same for the rest of the volume. Most of the stories seem to be half finished. They stop suddenly without any real sense of conclusion. Short stories of course do not tend to have long drawnout conclusions but in this collection the stories tend to stop dead.

That being said the collection is well worth picking up just for the two supertoys stories. An introduction by Aldiss talks about his experiences with Stanley Kubrick. Apparently he was quite the difficult creative partner. Interesting reading.




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