num_pages: 256
description: The title story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long, soon to be a major film directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of a young boy who, whatever he does, cannot please his mother. He is puzzled by this, not realising that he is an android, a cunning construct of artificial intelligence - as is his one ally, his teddy bear. It was a story that hugely affected Stanley Kubrick (director of 2001) and Steven Spielberg (who perhaps saw in his forthcoming movie AI (Artificial Intelligence) a complement to his ET!). The other stories in the collection, whether SF, utopian fantasy or dark fable show a master writer at the peak of his considerable powers.
language: English
title: Supertoys Last All Summer Long : And Other Stories of Future Time
titlecomplete: Supertoys Last All Summer Long : And Other Stories of Future Time
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, British Literature, Anthologies, School, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 1113
publisher: Orbit