DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

Marvin, The Paranoid Android : Marvin was made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and is a prototype robot with the new ‘Genuine People Personalities’ (GPP) technology. He is very, very depressed about this. He has a brain the size of a planet, yet is rarely given the chance to use it. Mostly he finds himself waiting several million years to park cars for an exclusive restaurant, being dropped several miles on to solid rock, and being left to defend himself against awesome military technology. He finds none of these things enjoyable. Through very odd circumstances involving time-travel, he is thirty-seven times older than the universe itself. In all that time, the diodes down his left side, which cause him pain, have never been replaced. Oh, yes, did we tell you he’s very depressed?