The Tercentenary Incident robot double who had died, but the president himself. The robot had then taken office. The Tercentenary Incident "The Tercentenary Incident" is a science fiction/mystery short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the August 1976 issue of "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", and reprinted in the collections "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories" (1976) and "The Complete Robot" (1982). "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" editor Frederic Dannay contacted Asimov in the fall of 1975 with a story proposal: the August 1976 issue, which would be on the stands during the United States Bicentennial, would include a contemporary
Elizabeth Haynes (crime writer) Elizabeth Haynes (crime writer) Elizabeth Haynes is a British writer of crime fiction. Elizabeth Haynes grew up in Seaford, East Sussex, and studied English, German and Art History at Leicester University. Her writing is partly inspired by her work as a police intelligence analyst in Kent. She was encouraged to submit her debut novel "Into the Darkest Corner" following a creative writing course at West Dean College and it was published by Myriad Editions in February 2011. Elizabeth Haynes won the Amazon UK 2011 Rising Stars award and "Into the Darkest Corner "was Amazon UK's Book of the Year for