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Bernardo's House

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Bernardo's House

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Author: James Patrick Kelly
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press, 2008
Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003
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Book Type: Novelette
Genre: Science-Fiction
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Hugo- and Sturgeon-nominated Novella

Bernardo has gone and his intelligent house misses him desperately. Designed to meet all her master's needs, she is his cook, maid, secretary, lover, and secret refuge from the world. Now she struggles to cope with his loss. On the edge of madness, she is saved by the arrival of a damaged young girl, who will teach her what it means to be human.

This story was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2003. It can also be found in the anthologies in Science Fiction: The Best of 2003, edited by Karen Haberr and Jonathan Strahan, and Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction (2018), edited by Bill Campbell and Francesco Verso. The story is included in the collection The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories (2008).

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NOTE: CONTAINS BRIEF SCENES OF EXPLICIT SEXUALITY.


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