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 Lullabies albums." Writing for "Vox", Simon Price felt that Anderson wrote some of his funniest lyrics on CD2, on the tracks "Young Men" and "Jumble Sale Mums". Aside from "Duchess", which he called "lazy rubbish," he had strong praise for both discs. The album continued Suede's run of consecutive top ten albums, peaking at no. 9 in October 1997. Despite never placing on any of "Billboard"'s charts, "Sci-Fi Lullabies" had sold 19,000 units in the US by 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Keith Phipps of "The A.V. Club" and Scott Plagenhoef of "Stylus Magazine" spoke of the effort invested in Suede's