"Bad Machine" by Kage Baker
(Novelette)
A pretty hilarious tale set in a future England where the birth rate is very low and the civil service has apparently taken over the entire country and the morals of the public are being watched over by the Bureau of Public Health. Things start to become tricky when some Bureau people notice that a certain Alec Checkerfield, the teenage son of an English aristocrat and gifted with unusual 'talents', has been ordering an extraordinary amount of "Happihealthy Shields" for 'intimate encounters' with girls who just cannot resist his charms. How can Alec avoid been sent to a hospital for 'sexual perverts'? Perhaps he can, with the help of an intelligent machine which was originally designed to protect Alec as a kid but who will now stop at nothing to protect him.
Read from Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2005 issue
A pretty hilarious tale set in a future England where the birth rate is very low and the civil service has apparently taken over the entire country and the morals of the public are being watched over by the Bureau of Public Health. Things start to become tricky when some Bureau people notice that a certain Alec Checkerfield, the teenage son of an English aristocrat and gifted with unusual 'talents', has been ordering an extraordinary amount of "Happihealthy Shields" for 'intimate encounters' with girls who just cannot resist his charms. How can Alec avoid been sent to a hospital for 'sexual perverts'? Perhaps he can, with the help of an intelligent machine which was originally designed to protect Alec as a kid but who will now stop at nothing to protect him.
Read from Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2005 issue
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