Three Laws of Robotics stated explicitly. Several years later Asimov's friend Randall Garrett attributed the Laws to a symbiotic partnership between the two men – a suggestion that Asimov adopted enthusiastically. According to his autobiographical writings, Asimov included the First Law's "inaction" clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem "The Latest Decalogue" (), which includes the satirical lines "Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive". Although Asimov pins the creation of the Three Laws on one particular date, their appearance in his literature happened over a period. He wrote two robot stories with no explicit mention of the
Sci-Fi Valley Con Sci-Fi Valley Con Team also spent a year building a lifesize Claptrap from the Borderlands video game series. This will be one of the most realistic lifesize replicas of Claptrap in existence. The prop made its world debut alongside David Eddings who voiced the character in the video games and Dameon Clarke who voiced Handsome Jack in Borderlands and Cell from the Dragon Ball Z series. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 7 show was on June 8–10, 2018 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The 2018 celebrity guest list included: Jim Beaver, best known from his role as Bobby