title: Under the Haystack
author: Mrs. P. A. Engebrecht
description: Pat Engebrecht grew up in the foothills of the Cascades in Oregon on a farm. She began writing seriously when challenged by an English professor who cited her work as some of the worse he had read! Under The Haystack was nominated for the Newbery Award, reviewed in the New York Times and Kirkus. A movie option was sold to a Canadian firm, Jodi Foster to play the lead. The option was not exercised. Ms. Engebrecht put aside her pen when she established her own construction firm, L&amp;L Developers creating one of the first women-owned construction firms in Rochester, New York. She has taught tennis, platform tennis and writing. Presently she is the grandmother of nine, loves gardening and his resumed her writing career by forming her own company, Pat's Publishing partnering with CreateSpace/Amazon. She resides in Bradenton, Florida in the winter and Canandaigua Lake in New York.
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  by Frederik Pohl
  
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   **1**
  
    
  
  My name is Robinette Broadhead, in spite of which I am male. My analyst (whom
  I call Sigfrid von Shrink, although that isn’t his name; he hasn’t got a name,
  being a machine) has a lot of electronic fun with this fact:
  
  “Why do you care if some people think it’s a girl’s name, Rob?”
  
  “I don’t.”
  
  “Then why do you keep bringing it up?”
  
  He annoys me when he keeps bringing up what I keep bringing up. I look at the
  ceiling with its hanging mobiles and pinatas, then I look out the window. It
  isn’t really a window. It’s a moving holopic of surf coming in on Kaena Point;
  Sigfrid’s programming is pretty eclectic. After a while I say, “I can’t help
  what my parents called me. I tried spelling it R-O-B-I-N-E-T, but then
  everybody pronounces 