“Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.”

— Brian W. Aldiss, book Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

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