Author: Isaac and Silverberg, Robert Asimov

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• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Ugly Little Boy (1958) Novel, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And, alone in the dim emptiness of the sleeping forecasde he appeared bigger, colossal, very old; old as Father time himself, who should have come there into this place as quiet as a sepulchre to contemplate with patient eyes the short victory of sleep, the consoler. Yet he was only a child of time, a lonely relic of a devoured and forgotten generation…
    FROM: The Nigger of the Narcissus, (1897), Book, Ukraine/ UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Positronic Man (1992) Novel, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The tree laws of robotics 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL