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"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" is a 2023 science fiction short story by Trinidadian author R. S. A. Garcia. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine.
An elderly Trinidadian woman is given a robotic farmhand made of nanotechnology, with unexpected results — including that it is repeatedly eaten by her goat.
"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2023[1] and the 2024 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.[2]
Garcia has described the story as having been inspired by an online conversation about how goats will eat anything.[3]
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