Henry Slesar 10 min read

'How I wish Faw-Faw were here!', the narrator longs for the beloved story-telling robot of childhood, whose soothing voice once spun fairy tales from his metal chest. What have they done with him?

Henry Slesar's 1957 story is a tender, wistful AI-and-social-SF tale of a robot nursemaid and the child who loved him. Poignant, affecting golden-age SF. Read it for a moving story about the deep bond between a person and the machine that raised them.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

10 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).