Deadly Image

1957 science fiction novel by British author Edmund Cooper. First published in Britain under the title, "The Uncertain Midnight." He was an anachronism... He was a twentieth centyry man who, by a freak of chance, survived to see an age in which working had become a social disgrace; an age in which culture and the arts reigned supreme; an age of mannered ladies and gentlemen, perfectly waited on and cared for by androids - the man-like creations of their own genius. The higher grade androids were doctors, engineers, politicians and personal "companions" to each and every human being. And in whatever they did, they were perfect. No one had to worry about them. For the first time in history, man had completely freed himself from the problems of EXCEPT... When paerfect manchines, with perfect performance, are made to perfectly resemble man - who needs man?