Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester
A stylish, unsettling tale about a wealthy young man and the android he buys for companionship: when the machine overheats it becomes violently homicidal, and after a killing the pair flee, their lives collapsing into a dangerous codependency. As they move through decadent settings and evade detection, the owner’s personality and the automaton’s impulses blur into one another, and the narration fractures—shifting voices and tenses—to probe responsibility, obsession, and the fragile boundary between human identity and manufactured behavior.
- Published
- 1954
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 8-12 pages
- Original Language
- English
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