Robot Stories
- "Rossums Universal Robots" (1921) by Karel Čapek
- A science fiction play in the Czech language - noted for introducing the term "robot" (though the robots described there would today be described as androids).
- "Robbie" (1939) by Isaac Asimov
- First robot story by Isaac Asimov, published in the September 1940 issue of Super Science Stories.
- "Runaround" (1942) by Isaac Asimov
- First story to list the Three Laws of Robotics, published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding.
- "The Quest for St. Aquin" (1951) by Anthony Boucher
- First, and possibly only, time a robot is portrayed as canonized theologian
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