Esta colección de relatos, publicada por vez primera en 1978 por Ediciones Minotauro, vuelve estar de máxima actualidad con el estreno de la película empezada por Stanley Kubrick y completada por Steven Spielberg, (A.I.) Inteligencia Artificial. Basada en "Los superjuguetes duran todo el verano", en que un niño robot lucha por conectar con su madre humana, la película cuenta con el protagonista de Haley Joel Osment (El sexto sentido) y Jude Law (El talento de Mr. Ripley) como los robots.

Good SF stories like "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" almost get squeezed out by semi-autobiographical musings such as Travels in India and My Worst Parasitic Infections. All right I suppose...if you like that sort of thing. ( )

http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2016/05/review-of-moment-of-eclipse-by-brian.ht... ( )

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2178701.html

This collection of short stories won the BSFA Award for 1970; I first read them as a teenager, and found them mindblowing then. I still find them mindblowing now - maybe it's just that Aldiss got to me at a vulnerable age, but there's something about his laconic yet cosmic vision that sucks me in, almost uncritically.

Not completely uncritically. The story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long", which was the basis for Spielberg's film A.I., is the weakest of the collection, and "Swastika!", about a documentary maker catching up with a disguised Hitler living in Ostend, was surely in poor taste then and worse now. And the stories about the crumbling veneer of civilisation in former British colonies are rather of their time. But beneath the surface detail, Aldiss's preoccupation with the future of humanity, explored through language, grabs me as viscerally as ever. ( )

Indeholder "The Moment of Eclipse", "The Day We Embarked For Cythera", "Orgy of the Living and the Dying", "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", "The Village Swindler", "Down the Up Escalation", "That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art...", "Confluence", "Heresies of the Huge God", "The Circulation of the Blood...", "...And the Stagnation of the Heart.", "The Worm That Flies", "Working in the Spaceship Yards", "Swastika!".

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"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" inspirerede Stanley Kubrick til filmen AI, som det dog blev Spielberg, der lavede færdig. ( )