- Satisfaction Guaranteed (short story)
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"Satisfaction Guaranteed" Author Isaac Asimov Country United States Language English Series Robot Series Genre(s) Science fiction short story Published in Amazing Stories Publication type Periodical Publisher Ziff Davis Media type Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback) Publication date April 1951 Preceded by "Liar!" Followed by "Lenny" "Satisfaction Guaranteed" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in the April 1951 issue of Amazing Stories, and included in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), The Rest of the Robots (1964), and The Complete Robot (1982).
Plot summary
Robot TN-3 (also known as Tony) is designed as a humaniform household robot, an attempt by US Robots to get robots accepted in the home. He is placed with Claire Belmont, whose husband works for the company, as an experiment, but she is reluctant to accept him. Tony realizes that Claire has a very low self-esteem and an inferiority complex, and tries to help her by redecorating her house and giving her a make-over. Finally, he pretends to be her lover, and deliberately lets the neighbors see him making love to (kissing) Claire, thus increasing her self-esteem. In the end, though, Claire falls in love with Tony, but the Three Laws of Robotics are slightly broken since at first Claire is very bewildered and screams when the robot hugs her. In the end, the TN-3 robot models are rebuilt.
Adaptations
The story was adapted as an episode of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown with Wendy Craig as Claire.[1]
References
Preceded by:
Liar!Included in:
The Rest of the Robots
The Complete RobotSeries:
Robot Series
The Complete RobotFollowed by:
LennyEarth Is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov "The Dead Past" · "The Foundation of S.F. Success" · "Franchise" · "Gimmicks Three" · "Kid Stuff" · "The Watery Place" · "Living Space" · "The Message" · "Satisfaction Guaranteed" · "Hell-Fire" · "The Last Trump" · "The Fun They Had" · "Jokester" · "The Immortal Bard" · "Someday" · "The Author's Ordeal" · "Dreaming Is a Private Thing"
The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray" · "Victory Unintentional" · "First Law" · "Let's Get Together" · "Satisfaction Guaranteed" · "Risk" · "Lenny" · "Galley Slave"
The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov "A Boy's Best Friend" · "Sally" · "Someday" · "Point of View" · "Think!" · "True Love" · "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray" · "Victory Unintentional" · "Stranger in Paradise" · "Light Verse" · "Segregationist" · "Robbie" · "Let's Get Together" · "Mirror Image" · "The Tercentenary Incident" · "First Law" · "Runaround" · "Reason" · "Catch that Rabbit" · "Liar!" · "Satisfaction Guaranteed" · "Lenny" · "Galley Slave" · "Little Lost Robot" · "Risk" · "Escape!" · "Evidence" · "The Evitable Conflict" · "Feminine Intuition" · ". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him" · "The Bicentennial Man"
Categories:- Short stories by Isaac Asimov
- Robot series short stories by Isaac Asimov
- 1951 short stories
- Works originally published in Amazing Stories
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