Story request

[boolean2]

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a story that I read several years ago. I remember how it started but I can't for the life of me remember the title. If this is the wrong forum to post a request like this, I do apologize.

The story starts in the far future. Humans are extinct, having eventually all chosen brain uploading and eventual voluntary shutdown. Earth is now populated entirely by robots, and one of them, working in an animal research lab, has the bright idea to genetically create a human with the personality of a romance novel hero to help him (the robot) create an "authentic" human protagonist for a novel he's working on. His colleague is a fembot scientist who manages the care of the lab animals, and she is furious when she discovers what he's done, but it's too late. When she tries to terminate the now fully vat grown man, she finds she has deeply buried Asimov-law-like programming that won't let her. When he awakes, she finds herself acting subservient towards him, her body automatically transforming into a more feminine human form, and she eventually starts to fall for him, much to her consternation. She consults with one of her former selves (a saved program) from a time when humans were still around and she confirms that all robots have been designed to serve humans, even though they've forgotten all about it over the last several hundred years. Then her lab assistant gets the bright idea to create a human woman to go with the man and things start to get really interesting...

Does anyone know where I can find this?

[tectile]

Sorry, I can't help with the title but the story sounds like something I would like to read.

[Cecilauthor]

I too, would love to read that. Don't know the title. There is a similar novel by Charles Stross called Saturn's Children, similar in some superficial ways to what you describe, but not exact.

[BA2]

I do remember that story from long ago but can't remember exactly where from... I think it may be in one of my piles of paperpack SciFi short story books, I'm sure it was commercially published rather than on here. I'll have a look when I get the chance.

BA

[boolean2]

I read it originally on another site, but I can't remember which one. It could possibly be in print, but it was quite short (only two parts, maybe about 5000 words each). It struck me at the time for it's originality and humor. I'd like to write something with a similar premise (though certainly not a clone), but I'm still working out the details.

[DukeNukem 2417]

I too, would love to read that. Don't know the title. There is a similar novel by Charles Stross called Saturn's Children, similar in some superficial ways to what you describe, but not exact.

I have that novel, actually.

[DroidLurker]

The story you here looking for is titled "Solve for X" by Pakled. It actually started out on this site in parts, but you can find the full version here: http://www.fembotwiki.com/index.php?title=Solve_for_X

[pakled]

I gotta start coming in here more often... Glad you liked it...I swear I had more stories posted at Fembotwiki (well, here, and Timeless Beauty site). But I think there's still a copy at Fembotwiki...

[boolean2]

Thanks for locating it. Sorry I didn't check back until now. I'm also reading and enjoying Saturn's Children. "Palindrome" was actually the story I was thinking of, but "Solve for X" is the sequel.