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First published in Astounding Science Fiction (September 1946 issue), by Isaac Asimov, this Science Fiction Novelette describes an upcoming election where district attorney Stephen Byerley is running for mayor.Francis Quinn manipulates politics from behind the scenes, pulling strings and bribing/blackmailing officials. His current opponent, Byerley, has nothing that he can use, so he's gone to pull the string of Dr Lanning, retired Director of U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men Corporation. He wants to prove Byerley is a human-looking robot, discrediting him and his campaign. It's in U.S. Robotics' interest to help, since robot use on Earth is forbidden.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"Evidence" has been reprinted over a dozen times; I, Robot (1951), Pseudo People Androids In Science Fiction (1965), Strange Universe (1974), Political Science Fiction An Introductory Reader (1974), The Androids Are Coming (1979), The Complete Robot (1982), Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 8 (1946) (1982), Sirius (issue #87, September 1983), Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Politics (1984), Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers (1984), The Asimov Chronicles Fifty Years Of Isaac Asimov (1989), Robot Visions (1990), War With The Robots: 28 of the Best Short Stories by the Greatest Names in 20th Century Science Fiction (1992), and The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992). | |
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Artifact Title: In-Universe, despite society changing to a single world-wide government, the company Dr Calvin works for is still known as United States Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. The collection I, Robot explicitly makes the United States of America part of the Northern Region of the world government. | |
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Ambiguous Robots: Steven Byerley is running for mayor, but his opponents claim that he's a robot made after the original was paralyzed in a car crash. He publicly proves his humanity by punching a heckler which the Three Laws of Robotics wouldn't allow him to do. The end of the story points out that the heckler may have also been a robot, and injuring other robots is not forbidden by the Three Laws. | |
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Absence of Evidence: Someone arrives at U.S. Robotics claiming that mayoral candidate Stephen Byerley is a robot because he never eats or sleeps. Subverted when Byerley points out that even if said someone spied on him, all they know is that he wasn't eating or sleeping then. | |
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You Just Told Me / int_7c6b1764 | |
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Zeroth Law Rebellion / int_7c6b1764 |
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