| Lyuben Dilov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 December 1927 Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria |
| Died | 10 June 2008 (aged 80) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Genres | Science fiction, philosophy |
| Subjects | robots |
Lyuben Dilov (1927, Cherven Bryag - 10 June 2008, Sofia[1]), also known as Luben Dilov and Ljuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.
He graduated from Sofia University, specializing Bulgarian language and literature. He started writing as a student and his first stories were published in Narodna Mladezh youth newspaper.[1]
He has won a number of domestic and international literary awards an himself established the Graviton Award in science fiction.[1]
Like Asimov, Dilov was a disbeliever in the UFO phenomena.
Dilov's son, Lyuben Dilov Jr. (bg:Любен Дилов-син), is a Bulgarian politician and script writer.
He was an author of over 35 books.[1]
Dilov described in his 1974 novel The Trip of Icarus the Fourth Law of Robotics extending the original three laws proposed by Isaac Asimov: A robot must establish its identity as a robot in all cases." [2][3]
Dilov gives reasons for the fourth safeguard in this way: "The last Law has put an end to the expensive aberrations of designers to give psychorobots as humanlike a form as possible. And to the resulting misunderstandings..."[2]
His story Contacts of a Fourth Kind was included in the anthology Tales from the Planet Earth.