Monica Swinton is one of the main characters in the short story “Super-toys last all summer long” written by Brian Aldiss. She is married to Henry Swinton, and she got an artificial child called David. She is described as a young good-looking woman, who likes to sit at home thinking beautiful thoughts. It seems like she prefers to be alone, which we see on page 2, line 8 “(…) the city center rose by her left hand, full of crowding people, blow-boats, and buildings (but she kept the sound down). She remained alone.” She has changed the wavelength of her windows to an overcrowded place, only because it is the ideal place in which to be lonely. She is seeking the feeling of being lonesome, because she is living in an overpopulated world, and