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"Feminine Intuition" is a science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 short story
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
 by Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
, originally published in the October 1969 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and collected in The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov . Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short story and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written....
 (1976), The Complete Robot
The Complete Robot

The Complete Robot is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and other anthologies....
 (1982), and Robot Visions
Robot Visions

Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. However, the stories in I, Robot were edited to make a more cohesive whole; Robot Visions re...
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ton Madarian, the successor to Susan Calvin
Susan Calvin

Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. She was the chief Robopsychology at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century....
 at US Robots, who has just retired, initiates a project to create a "feminine" robot, which not only has female physical characteristics but will, it is hoped, have a brain with "feminine
Femininity

Femininity refers to qualities and behaviors judged by a particular culture to be ideally associated with or especially appropriate to woman and girls....
 intuition".






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"Feminine Intuition" is a science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 short story
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
 by Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
, originally published in the October 1969 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and collected in The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov . Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short story and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written....
 (1976), The Complete Robot
The Complete Robot

The Complete Robot is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and other anthologies....
 (1982), and Robot Visions
Robot Visions

Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. However, the stories in I, Robot were edited to make a more cohesive whole; Robot Visions re...
.

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Clinton Madarian, the successor to Susan Calvin
Susan Calvin

Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. She was the chief Robopsychology at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century....
 at US Robots, who has just retired, initiates a project to create a "feminine" robot, which not only has female physical characteristics but will, it is hoped, have a brain with "feminine
Femininity

Femininity refers to qualities and behaviors judged by a particular culture to be ideally associated with or especially appropriate to woman and girls....
 intuition". After several failures, JN-5 (aka Jane) is produced and the company plan to use it (her) to analyse astronomical data at the Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory

Lowell Observatory is an astronomy observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell Observatory is among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965....
 at Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In July 2006, the city's estimated population was 58,213. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was estimated at 127,450 in 2007....
 to calculate the most likely stars in the vicinity of Earth to have habitable planets. This will allow the most effective use of the hyperspace
Hyperspace (science fiction)

Hyperspace is a fictional plot device sometimes used in science fiction. It is typically described as an alternate region of subspace co-existing with our own universe which may be entered using an energy field or other device....
 drive to explore those stars.

Madarian and Jane go to Flagstaff and after absorbing as much knowledge on astronomy as possible, Jane gives Madarian an answer. Mandarian and Jane board the plane that will take them back to US Robots, and Mandarian calls the director of the company with the news. Unfortunately, he and Jane are killed and destroyed respectively in an aircrash on the way back, before completing the call. Desperate to know what, if anything, Jane had discovered, US Robots calls Susan Calvin in. She solves the problem using her own version of feminine intuition - a combination of careful information gathering and astute psychological reasoning. The title of the story is thus highly ironic.