Fine, Stephen
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1949- ) US author whose first novel, Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android, or How I Came to my Senses, Was Repaired, Escaped my Master, and Was Educated in the Ways of the World (1988), rewrites Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) as the memoirs of a twenty-first-century Android to satirical effect. Her innocence – assisted by memory wipes (see Memory Edit) – resembles that of Voltaire's Candide, or almost any of John T Sladek's child Robots in a cruel world. Some of the points about Molly's legal enslavement are sharply made. [JC]
Stephen Fine
born 1949
works
- Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android, or How I Came to my Senses, Was Repaired, Escaped my Master, and Was Educated in the Ways of the World (New York: St Martin's Press, 1988) [hb/Raquel Jaramillo]
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