Three Laws of Robotics "Lucky Starr" series of young-adult fiction. The Laws are incorporated into almost all of the positronic robots appearing in his fiction, and cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature. Many of Asimov's robot-focused stories involve robots behaving in unusual and counter-intuitive ways as an unintended consequence of how the robot applies the Three Laws to the situation in which it finds itself. Other authors working in Asimov's fictional universe have adopted them and references, often parodic, appear throughout science fiction as well as in other genres. The original laws have been altered and elaborated on by Asimov and
Sci-Fi on the Rock "His Majesty's New World"), comic-book artist Paul Tucker ("The Underworld Railroad", "Google John Smith"), actor Brian Downey ("Lexx", "Millennium"), actor Jeremy Bulloch ("The Empire Strikes Back", "Octopussy"), author William Meikle ("The Midnight Eye" series), horror author Matthew LeDrew ("Black Womb", "Roulette") and author Shannon Patrick Sullivan ("The Dying Days"). Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was held on April 1, 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl (formerly Chateau Park) in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. It featured special guest authors Kenneth Tam and Shannon Patrick Sullivan, and local business/fangroup, Vader Party. As well as featuring special guests, the festival featured workshops throughout