Difference between revisions of "Yukui!"
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Kelly, James Patrick. "Yukui!"''' (with exclamation mark). ''Clarkesworld'' ("Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine") Issue 143 (August 2018). As of 5 August 2020, on line here.[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kelly_08_18_reprint/] "Originally published in ''The Promise of Space and Other Stories'' by James Patrick Kelly.[...].[https://play.acast.com/s/clarkesworldmagazinesciencefictionfantasy/1981031711] Gaithersburg, MD: Prime Books, 2018.[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-promise-of-space-and-other-stories-james-patrick-kelly/1126006911] | '''Kelly, James Patrick. "Yukui!"''' (with exclamation mark). ''Clarkesworld'' ("Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine") Issue 143 (August 2018). As of 5 August 2020, on line here.[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kelly_08_18_reprint/] "Originally published in ''The Promise of Space and Other Stories'' by James Patrick Kelly.[...].[https://play.acast.com/s/clarkesworldmagazinesciencefictionfantasy/1981031711] Gaithersburg, MD: Prime Books, 2018.[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-promise-of-space-and-other-stories-james-patrick-kelly/1126006911] | ||
− | Short cybernetic fiction (mildly satiric in tone) from the point of view of a "sidekick" "DI" — a "dependent intelligence" or highly conscious sex-bot robot — and her frustrations with an owner uninterested in sex, at least with her, when she is "programmed to satisfy his needs" and think (sic) of him as a "hero." Insofar as there is satiric purpose here, the norm might be indirectly expressed in a paragraph where the protagonist sex-bot question the usefulness in what would be the equivalent in our world, of a psychologist (though not in Isaac Asimov's ''[[I Robot]]'' worlds a robopsychologist like Dr. Susan Calvin). | + | Short cybernetic fiction (mildly satiric in tone) from the point of view of a "sidekick" "DI" — a "dependent intelligence" or highly conscious sex-bot robot — and her frustrations with an owner uninterested in sex, at least with her, when she is "programmed to satisfy his needs" and think (sic) of him as a "hero." Insofar as there is satiric purpose here, the norm might be indirectly expressed in a paragraph where the protagonist sex-bot question the usefulness in what would be the equivalent in our world, of a psychologist (though not in Isaac Asimov's ''[[I, Robot (Asimov)|I Robot]]'' worlds a robopsychologist like Dr. Susan Calvin). |
<blockquote> | <blockquote> |
Revision as of 18:26, 5 August 2020
Kelly, James Patrick. "Yukui!" (with exclamation mark). Clarkesworld ("Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine") Issue 143 (August 2018). As of 5 August 2020, on line here.[1] "Originally published in The Promise of Space and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly.[...].[2] Gaithersburg, MD: Prime Books, 2018.[3]
Short cybernetic fiction (mildly satiric in tone) from the point of view of a "sidekick" "DI" — a "dependent intelligence" or highly conscious sex-bot robot — and her frustrations with an owner uninterested in sex, at least with her, when she is "programmed to satisfy his needs" and think (sic) of him as a "hero." Insofar as there is satiric purpose here, the norm might be indirectly expressed in a paragraph where the protagonist sex-bot question the usefulness in what would be the equivalent in our world, of a psychologist (though not in Isaac Asimov's I Robot worlds a robopsychologist like Dr. Susan Calvin).
RDE, finishing up, 5Aug20