Lyuben Dilov

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.^{[citation needed]}

Dilov's son, Lyuben Dilov Jr. (bg:Любен Дилов-син), is a Bulgarian politician and script writer.

Works

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.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} www.novinite.com
2. ^ ^{a b} Dilov, Lyuben (aka Lyubin, Luben or Liuben) (2002). Пътят на Икар. Захари Стоянов. ISBN 954-739-338-3. 
3. ^ Another Fourth Law of Robotics was proposed by Harry Harrison in the tribute anthology Foundation's Friends in 1989.

Persondata
Name	Dilov
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	25 December 1927
Place of birth	Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria
Date of death	10 June 2008
Place of death	Sofia, Bulgaria