Occupation writer Education Sofia University Nationality Bulgarian Movies Karnavalat | Name Lyuben Dilov Children Lyuben Dilov Jr. Role Science-fiction writer | |
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Genre Science fiction, Philosophy Died June 10, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria Grandchildren Pavlin Dilov, Ivan Dilov, Milkana Dilova People also search for Lyuben Dilov Jr., Ivanka Grybcheva, Georgi Danailov, Pavlin Dilov, Ivan Dilov, Milkana Dilova | ||
Lyuben Dilov Jr. on Vassil Parmakov's "Me and Major Blucher"
Lyuben Dilov (Любен Дилов, 1927, Cherven Bryag - 10 June 2008, Sofia), also known as Luben Dilov and Ljuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.
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- Lyuben Dilov Jr on Vassil Parmakovs Me and Major Blucher
- Works
- Novels
- Stories and Short Stories
- References
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.
He has won a number of domestic and international literary awards an himself established the Graviton Award in science fiction.
Dilov's son, Lyuben Dilov Jr. (bg:Любен Дилов-син), is a Bulgarian politician and screenwriter.
Works
He was an author of over 35 books.
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."
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..."
His story Contacts of a Fourth Kind was included in the anthology Tales from the Planet Earth.