Monkey Work

by Kelly Robson

Unknown Binding

Published April 15, 2020

About the author

Like you, I'm a passionate reader. I spent most of my teenage years either hanging out at the drugstore waiting for new issues of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, or when I was in the city, lurking in the SF and Fantasy section of the bookstore. This was pre-Internet and since there were no bookstores in my town and the library was pretty bare, good books -- the kind that made my heart sing -- were precious treasures.

To this day, nothing is more important to me than reading, nothing is more delicious than a great novel, and few people are as important as my favorite writers.

My writing life has been pretty diverse. I've edited science books, and from 2008 to 2012 I had the great good luck to write a monthly wine column for Chatelaine, the largest women's magazine in Canada.

I've published short fiction at Tor.com, Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and a number of anthologies. Several of my stories have been chosen for "year's best" anthologies, and in the past two years I've been a finalist for several high-profile awards.

Reviews

[Susan]

This very short story was based on an interesting idea (using sex bots to do the grunt labour or "monkey work" in a medical research lab) but it was just OK for me. It didn't really go anywhere and I guess I wanted more. I listened to the Serial Box audio and this one did not have any sound effects or music. The narration was good.

[David Blaylock]

Read to my by Leon Nixon on Tales Beyond Time podcast.