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Evil Robot Monkey

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
2008

Publication type
  
Book

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Publication date
  
2008

Author
  
Mary Robinette Kowal

Genre(s)
  
Science fiction short story

Published in
  
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2

Nominations
  
Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Similar
  
Mary Robinette Kowal books, Other books

"Evil Robot Monkey" is a science fiction short story published in 2008 by Mary Robinette Kowal. It was nominated for the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

Plot summary

The story is about Sly, a chimp who loves to shape clay on a potter's wheel and has an implant which makes him much smarter than other chimps. When a group of school kids make Sly act out in anger, the sympathetic human Vern is asked to take away Sly's clay.

The original title was "Hairy Potter and the Evil Robot Monkey", which she was requested to change by the editor, as the idea was to create a real story for the joke title.

References

Evil Robot Monkey Wikipedia