Liar! (short story)

"Liar!"
Short story by Isaac Asimov
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inAstounding Science Fiction
Publication typePeriodical
PublisherStreet & Smith
Media typePrint (magazine, hardback and paperback)
Publication dateMay 1941
Chronology
SeriesRobot series
 
Catch that Rabbit
 
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"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982). It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story. Although the word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), Asimov's story "Liar!" contains the first recorded use of the word "robotics" according to the Oxford English Dictionary.[1][2] The events of this short story are also mentioned in the novel The Robots of Dawn written by the same author.

  1. ^ Sample, Ian (7 April 2009). "Pop a Disc pill and engage the Higgs drive!". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  2. ^ Prucher, Jeff (31 March 2009). "Nine words you might think came from science but which are really from science fiction". OUPblog. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 February 2017.