Brian W. Aldiss - Super-Toys Last all Summer.Long

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The Kubrick Site: "Supertoys..."

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

by Brian Aldiss

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.

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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.

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The Kubrick Site: "Supertoys..."

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.

When she made up her mind to follow the boy, she found him in the courtyard

floating the rose in his paddling pool. He stood in the pool engrossed, still wearing

his sandals.

"David, darling, do you have to be so awful? Come in at once and change your

shoes and socks."

He went with her without protest into the house, his dark head bobbing at the

level of her waist. At the age of three, he showed no fear of the ultrasonic dryer in

the kitchen. But before his mother could reach for a pair of slippers, he wriggled

away and was gone into the silence of the house.

He would probably be looking for Teddy.

Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in

her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking;

soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it

reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving

the world. Almost by reflex, she reached out and changed the wavelength of her

windows. The garden faded; in its place, the city center rose by her left hand, full

of crowding people, blowboats, and buildings (but she kept the sound down). She

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

The directors of Synthank were eating an enormous luncheon to celebrate the

launching of their new product. Some of them wore the plastic face-masks

popular at the time. All were elegantly slender, despite the rich food and drink

they were putting away. Their wives were elegantly slender, despite the food and

drink they too were putting away. An earlier and less sophisticated generation

would have regarded them as beautiful people, apart from their eyes.

Henry Swinton, Managing Director of Synthank, was about to make a speech.

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