Few short stories in science fiction have cast a longer and more curious shadow than Brian Aldiss’s Supertoys Last All Summer Long. First published in 1969, the story’s quiet, melancholic exploration of artificial consciousness would eventually become the seed of one of cinema’s most legendary unrealised projects: Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A lecture by […]

Delighted to see that Mark Kermode has done a u-turn about his berating of the Spielberg-released movie AI which is based on Supertoys Last All Summer Long. Brian spent several long weeks working with Kubrick to create a screen play from this short story but in the end couldn’t find a solution to Kubrick’s seemingly endless desire […]