Mockingbird

Mockingbird, first published in 1980, is Walter Tevis's science fiction novel set in a future New York where robots run society and drugged, isolated humans have forgotten how to read and have stopped having children. Spofforth, an advanced android who longs to die, runs New York University. Paul Bentley teaches himself to read from old books and silent films, falls in love with the rebellious Mary Lou and sets out to reclaim what humanity has lost.

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