Tag: surrealism

The Robot Who Looked Like Me

The Robot Who Looked Like Me

by Robert Sheckley (Sphere, 1978)

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A short fiction collection in which the reader is promised (and given) satire, inventiveness and humour, but also off-the-cuff storytelling, an intrusive sexual focus, a name writer’s complacency and maddening, devil-may-care flights of fancy that lead nowhere under the guise of surrealism.

 

Alice in Wonderland (1966)

Alice in Wonderland

dir. Jonathan Miller (BBC, 1966)

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An unwatchably surreal black-and-white adaptation in no way redeemed by its bevy of renowned actors and music by Ravi Shankar. Fifty years on and for one sixtieth of the time invested, viewers should YouTube ‘Prince of Parties’ by Flight of the Conchords.

 

Derelict Space Sheep