Quote #41

'Teddy, you know what I was thinking? How do you tell what are real things from what aren't real things?' The bear shuffled its alternatives. 'Real things are good.' 'I wonder if time is good. I don't think Mummy likes time very much. The other day, lots of days ago, she said that time went by her. Is time real, Teddy?'

More from Brian Aldiss

  1. There have been mechanicals on the market with mini-computers for brains - plastic things without life, super-toys - but we have at last fo…
  2. 'You and I are real, Teddy, aren't we?' The bear's eyes regarded the boy unflinchingly. 'You and I are real, David.' It specialized in comf…
  3. The directors of Synthank were eating an enormous luncheon to celebrate the launching of their new product. Some of them wore the plastic f…
  4. Amid all the triumphs of our civilization - yes, and amid the crushing problems of overpopulation too - it is sad to reflect how many milli…
  5. An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
  6. 'I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!' 'You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you.' Slowly, he shook his head. 'If she loved me, then why…
  7. Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began …
  8. Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still be…

All Brian Aldiss quotes