Lyuben Dilov

Lyuben Dilov
Born	25 December 1927 Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria
Died	10 June 2008 (aged 80) Sofia, Bulgaria
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Bulgarian
Genre	Science fiction, Philosophy

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.

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. (), is a Bulgarian politician and screenwriter.

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.

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