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Inappropriate Behavior

Pat Murphy

First published February 2004
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

A sea-bottom mining robot, left-over from a played out mine and operated telepathically by an autistic girl as an experimental therapy, comes across an injured man left stranded by a shipwreck.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (8)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 2004 Sci Fiction, February 11, 2004 SciFi.com MAGAZINE
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 1
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 1
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 1
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
September 2005 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |1
January 2014 Escape Pod, EP432 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE