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== '''GENERAL''' ==
*Helen O’loy is a short SF story written by Lester del Rey and was first published in 1938. At the time the typical robot stories involved rampaging automatons creating a path of death and destruction across the planet Earth. Straying away from this, Helen O’Loy focuses on love, or artificial love for that matter where (which has never been heard of beforeat the time) a robot has human emotionsand falls in love with a human. Helen O'loy, throughout the years has been praised as one of the greatest science fiction stories of all time. Being chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Helen O'loy is in Volume One of the book "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame".
== '''SUMMARY/PLOT''' ==
Phil and Dave are friends who have a relationship similar to that of brothers. They did not go to college together but when Phil went to Messina to practice medicine he found Dave in a little robot repair shop. Phil specialized in endocrinology and had a fond understading of glands, secretions, hormones and miscellanies which are the physical causes of emotions. Their relationship grew stronger and when Phil started dating a twin, Dave found the other attrative and they becames a foursome. They lived in a little apartment near the rocket fields, although noisy they loved it as the rocket launches discourages apartment building. Phil and Dave owned a female robot, most importantly she was somewhat of a maid to them. She cooked and cleaned and everything was swell until one day Lena (the female robot) accidentally put vanilla on their steak instead of salt. It was then that they discarded Lena and ordered the newest, state of the art utility model from a company called Dillard. The result was Helen. Her designation was K2W88, deciding it was not interesting they named her Helen O'loy instead (getting the name from Helen of Troy, but "of Troy" was also bland to them). They unpacked and unwrapped Helen from her box and began preparing the diagrams and schematics for Helen. They decided that they were going to implant her with memory coils and artificial glands so that she may act more human and that she may learn from her experiences. Later that night they decided they were going to activate her the next morning so they went to bed. The next morning Dave woke up Phil saying that Mrs. Van Styler's son became infatuated with a servant girl and wanted Phil to go to Maine where they were and give counter hormones. Phil left for Maine leaving Dave to watch Helen, Dave was not supposed to activate Helen while he was away but he did.
'''Battlestar Galactica'''
*''Number Three:'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Three_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29 A link to Number Three in WikiPedia]
*''Number Five (Aaron Doral):'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Five_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29 A link to Number Five (Aaron Doral) in WikiPedia]