. See Carl Freedman, Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical
Overview, in LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS: ESTRANGEMENT, COGNITION, AND THE POLITICS
OF SCIENCE FICTION AND UTOPIA 72, 81 (Patrick Parrinder, ed., 2001). See also Isaac
Asimov, Call It SF or Sci-Fi, It’s Big!, in THE 1980 WORLD YEAR BOOK, WORLD BOOK
ENCYCLOPEDIA (1980), reprinted as How Science Fiction Came to Be Big Business in
ASIMOV, ASIMOV ON SCIENCE FICTION, supra note 18, at 121, 123-4 [hereinafter Asimov,
How Science Fiction Came to Be Big Business].
. For instance, an analysis of legal personhood with The Bicentennial Man,
Isaac Asimov, The Bicentennial Man, STELLAR SCIENCE FICTION, Feb. 1976 [hereinafter
Asimov, The Bicentennial Man], reprinted in ISAAC ASIMOV, THE COMPLETE ROBOT, 519
(1982) [hereinafter ASIMOV, THE COMPLETE ROBOT], romantic application of robots
with Satisfaction Guaranteed, Isaac Asimov, Satisfaction Guaranteed, AMAZING
STORIES, Apr. 1951, reprinted in ASIMOV, THE COMPLETE ROBOT at 285 [hereinafter
Asimov, Satisfaction Guaranteed], the legal consequences of the destruction of a
robot with The Robots of Dawn, ISAAC ASIMOV, THE ROBOTS OF DAWN (1983)
[hereinafter ASIMOV, THE ROBOTS OF DAWN], the paradox of deontology with Liar!,
Isaac Asimov, Liar!, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, May 1941, reprinted in ASIMOV, THE
COMPLETE ROBOT at 267 [hereinafter Asimov, Liar!], Hans Kelsen’s PURE THEORY OF LAW
with Runaround, Isaac Asimov, Runaround, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, Mar. 1942
[hereinafter Asimov, Runaround], reprinted in ASIMOV, THE COMPLETE ROBOT at 209,
and The Evitable Conflict, Isaac Asimov, The Evitable Conflict, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE
FICTION, June 1950 [hereinafter Asimov, The Evitable Conflict], reprinted in ASIMOV,
THE COMPLETE ROBOT at 447, the automated law enforcement with Evidence, Isaac
Asimov, Evidence, ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, Sep. 1946, reprinted in ASIMOV, THE
COMPLETE ROBOT at 425, and the Bentham’s utilitarianism especially with Robots and
Empire, ISAAC ASIMOV, ROBOTS AND EMPIRE (1985) [hereinafter ASIMOV, ROBOTS AND
EMPIRE], Prelude to Foundation, ISAAC ASIMOV, PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION (1988)
[hereinafter, ASIMOV, PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION], Forward the Foundation, ISAAC ASIMOV,
FORWARD THE FOUNDATION (1993) and Foundation and Earth, ISAAC ASIMOV, FOUNDATION
AND EARTH (1986).