Yukui!

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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