Nikola Kesarovski

Nikola Kesarovski (Bulgarian: Никола Кесаровски) (c. 1935 – 29 August 2007) was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.

His most famous book is The Fifth Law of Robotics, published in 1983, the title being a reference to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the fifth law being that a robot must know that it is a robot.^{[1] [2]}

The science- fiction fan club "Fantastica" was founded in 1997 in the town of Kardzhali, in the south of Bulgaria by him.^[3] The club has a page in Nov Jivot (New Life) - the official newspaper of Kardzhali - and up to late 2003, it had published over 60 issues. He also edited the magazine Kosmos.^[4]

He was also organizer and kind host of the annual Bulgarian science-fiction festival "The 2002 Bulgacon", which took place in Kardzhali. The festival was attended by over 900 participants.

Kesarovski committed suicide in 2007 by jumping from a seventh-storey window of a hospital in Kardzhali.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Една запалена свещичка за Кольо Кесаровски". Kulturni Novini. 23 August 2008. http://kulturni-novini.info/index.php?page=news_show&nid=6363&sid=24. Retrieved 4 December 2009. 
2. ^ "The Bulgarian Laws of Robotics". Blog of V.D. Ivanov. 16 June 2011. http://valio98.blog.bg/izkustvo/2011/06/16/moiata-statiia-quot-lawful-little-country-the-bulgarian-laws.766446. Retrieved 22 June 2011. 
3. ^ "Приключи Националния конкурс за научно-фантастичен разказ". Kulturni Novini. 10 November 2007. http://kulturni-novini.info/index.php?page=news_show&nid=4818&sid=21. Retrieved 4 December 2009. 
4. ^ "Шест месеца без писателя Никола Кесаровски". Kulturni Novini. 1 March 2008. http://kulturni-novini.info/index.php?page=news_show&nid=5385&sid=24. Retrieved 4 December 2009. 
5. ^ "Отиде си Никола Кесаровски". Darik News. 29 August 2007. http://dariknews.bg/view_article.php?article_id=175100. Retrieved 4 December 2009. 

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