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Written by Isaac Asimov
A short story in the Robot Stories Of Isaac Asimov series
Cover Notes
A Susan Calvin story.
While working in a research outpost, someone told a robot to "Get lost". It did. It was then up to U.S. Robots' robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin, and Mathematical Director Peter Bogert to try and find it. The problem was that they knew exactly where it was. It was in a room with sixty-two identical robots.
So, why was this individual robot so important? The answer is that it had had its First Law modified, to read "No robot may injure a human being", i.e. it could happily leave a human to die by other means. Again, we explore the ambiguities of the English language, a technician who wanted a robot to leave told it to "Get lost", and the robot assumed that the order meant that it should secrete itself. In Little Lost Robot, the Frankenstein Complex is again addressed. The reason that the robot must be found is because people are still by and large scared of robots, and if they found one with a different First Law there would be an outcry, even though the robot is still incapable of harming a human.
Publication History
This story is contained in:
- Astounding Science Fiction magazine edited by John W Campbell - published March, 1947 by Street And Smith
- I Robot by Isaac Asimov - published December, 1950 by Gnome
Categories: Authors Isaac Asimov ! Series Robot Stories Of Isaac Asimov
