Anthony Fremont is an omnipotent three-year-old, even able to read minds. He has an obsession with things being "good" or "bad" (a sign of Stage 2 moral reasoning according to Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development), and the town's residents must be very careful with what they do, say, and feel around Anthony as to not offend him. Anthony carelessly inflicts cruelties upon the townsfolk as he has tantrums.

Later adapted into a Twilight Zone episode.

Computer-controlled machines, often intelligent.

Very frequently a stand-in for oppressed labor classes. If robots are said to be only shallow p-zombies, be sure that they will actually have rich inner lives. If they are said to always complete tasks in the face of danger, be sure that one will rebel to save itself.