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Back in the ‘50$
tly predicted
romance with companions
and the dangers that would follow
4 In “The Lonely”, a wrongly
convicted man, exiled to a distant
asteroid, is gifted a robot bride.
he’s apprehensive,
but soon falls in love as she
listens to everything he says without
judgment, affirms all his feelings,
and mirrors his own traits back to him.
Later a crew lands to
inform him been pardoned, and
there’s room for only one more to come
along. He refuses, saying
rather stay in this hell than abandon her.
Realizing he is about to
sacrifice everything for something
thatisn't real, the crewman shoots
iN her, revealing she was nothing
but machinery under а humanlike facade.
On the verge of tears,
he admits she wasn't real