Feminine Intuition

Feminine Intuition

Infobox Short story |
name = Feminine Intuition
author = Isaac Asimov
country = United States
language = English
series = Robot Series
genre = Science fiction short story
publication_type = Periodical
published_in = "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"
publisher = Mercury Publications
media_type = Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
pub_date = October 1969
preceded_by = Robot Dreams
followed_by = Light Verse "Feminine Intuition" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in the October 1969 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" and collected in "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories" (1976), "The Complete Robot" (1982), and "Robot Visions".

Clinton Madarian, the successor to Susan Calvin at US Robots, who has just retired, initiates a project to create a "feminine" robot, which not only has female physical characteristics but will, it is hoped, have a brain with "feminine intuition". After several failures, JN-5 (aka Jane) is produced and the company plan to use it (her) to analyse astronomical data at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona to calculate the most likely stars in the vicinity of Earth to have habitable planets. This will allow the most effective use of the hyperspace drive to explore those stars.

Madarian and Jane go to Flagstaff but are killed and destroyed respectively in an aircrash on the way back. Desperate to know what, if anything, Jane had discovered, US Robots calls Susan Calvin in. She solves the problem using her own version of feminine intuition - a combination of careful information gathering and astute psychological reasoning. The title of the story is thus highly ironic.

AsimovStory
before="Robot Dreams"
included1=The Complete Robot
included2=Robot Visions
series1=Robot Series
series2=Foundation Series
next="Light Verse"


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