Alice and Louise and the New Democracy. A Tale of Two Androids (en Inglés) - Ron Kreymborg

Louise is an android robot. She is intelligent, smart and beautiful and has been living with Dave her human partner for several years. Together they live an idyllic life, high in a penthouse apartment with views to the distant sea. Dave is the scientist responsible for developing in these androids the ability to move and speak like a human and to have a sense of self and an ability to learn. These characteristics together make androids indistinguishable from humans, but without the human dangerous tendencies for malice, avarice and jealousy.

Louise then meets Alice, another android just like her. They quickly develop a close friendship, but their lives could not be more different. Louise lives a life of domesticity, study and leisure. But for Alice, life is sophisticated, intense and challenging as she travels the world directing a vast international corporation with a turnover in the billions of dollars.

But as we learn more about these two androids, it becomes clear their meeting was not an accident after all. It seems there is a well-developed plan, secret and with far-reaching goals, that has quite different roles in mind for these two beautiful androids.

While Louise still enjoys her initial cuddle bunny role in her relationship with Dave, we learn the close friendship between Alice and Louise eventually becomes intimate, intensifying the strong bond they already share with each other. It appears this close relationship is part of their makeup and as we see, critical to their eventual roles.

Aided by a now large support system of powerful people, both androids are introduced into political roles. Filling these roles they quickly realise, was probably what they were originally designed for. Both are successful at elections and become electorate representatives. They easily win their respective seats at the next national election and become ministers in a government in which they will play the major part in developing a new version of democracy.

Finally, we learn these androids and their roles may live forever.