Indledning
“How do you tell what are real things from what aren’t real things?” Have you ever questioned your own existence or your surroundings?
These are some of the questions the short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” written by Brian Aldiss in 1969 reflects.
Love and loneliness are central themes when the story takes place in an imagination of the future where artificial intelligence and robots have become a part of the daily life and its hard to create real relationships.
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Uddrag
People create their own private reality with impeccable plastic gravel path, perpetual leaf, roses guaranteed free from any imperfections and illusion of gardens with golden sunlight
so that they do not get reminded of the world situation: “... their apartment had no windows on to the outside; nobody wanted to see the overcrowded external world.” (p. 5).
The environment is controlled by the government and there has been set childbirth restrictions to avoid more overpopulation.
Overall, the setting gives us a feeling of depression, cold and colorless future where it is difficult to fulfill the need for love and acceptance.
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