I forgot to mention my handling of gender in silicon-based lifeforms.
See JARVIS in "Love Is For Children," of which "Kernel Error" is written from his perspective. I write JARVIS as having a masculine personality, but he's not male because he doesn't reproduce asexually and isn't interested in an android body.
Kung Fu Robots has mostly neuter characters, but there's a reference to some who choose a masculine or feminine presentation.
In An Army of One, it's similar, most of the AYES are neuter but I've spotted one feminine individual.
Different setting, and I don't have any of this one online, but my silico androids are sexual. They only have one sex, but they can reproduce together -- any two or more of them.
I'm a gender scholar, I love this stuff. And that's before getting into any of the alien genders.
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See JARVIS in "Love Is For Children," of which "Kernel Error" is written from his perspective. I write JARVIS as having a masculine personality, but he's not male because he doesn't reproduce asexually and isn't interested in an android body.
Kung Fu Robots has mostly neuter characters, but there's a reference to some who choose a masculine or feminine presentation.
In An Army of One, it's similar, most of the AYES are neuter but I've spotted one feminine individual.
Different setting, and I don't have any of this one online, but my silico androids are sexual. They only have one sex, but they can reproduce together -- any two or more of them.
I'm a gender scholar, I love this stuff. And that's before getting into any of the alien genders.