Fondly Fahrenheit article from Auxiliary Memory
James Harris’ blog, Auxiliary Memory, has a great article on Alfred Bester’s Fondly Fahrenheit as well as some other interesting thoughts. He has some kind things to say about Wonder Audio’s audiobook version of said classic. Here’s some of James’ commentary on the story:
Alfred Bester wrote science fiction in the 1950s, during a time when social and psychological issues were just as important as space opera and time travel, and “Fondly Fahrenheit” features a Sweeney Todd deranged android that sharply contrasts with the clean and wholesome Asimov robots. This is a strangely adult story marketed in a genre mainly targeting the adolescent, and in a strange way can be considered disturbing, both in subject matter, but also to the field of science fiction of its day. Like I’ve implied, I considered Bester weird, stranger than A. E. Van Vogt, but not as far out as Philip K. Dick whose career came after Bester’s. “Fondly Fahrenheit” is an android story and pairs well with Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the novel the brilliant Sci-Fi film Blade Runner was based on.
Read the full entry at Auxiliary Memory.
