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* AbsenteeActor: This is the first story where Michael Donovan appears without Gregory Powell, something that never happens in reverse.
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* AliensAndMonsters: On [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], which is [[PerpetualStorm covered in storms]], is a species called a storm pup. These storm pup are the only creatures that can naturally survive a Titan storm and are also vicious creatures. Donovan believes that he's encountered one on his way back to base, but it was actually something else.
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* InevitablyBrokenRule: Mike Donovan [[[[UnreliableExpositor tells a pub]] about a robot, [[RobotNames MA-2]], that broke the First Law [[AIIsACrapshoot because it was a mother]], who was [[MamaBear protecting her offspring]].
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* MamaBear: Emma Two abandoned a human in danger, violating [[ThreeLawsCompliant the First Law of Robotics]], because otherwise the human would've killed their child. No, how Emma was [[TruelySingleParent able to give birth]] is ''not'' explained.
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* MamaBear: Emma Two abandoned a human in danger, violating [[ThreeLawsCompliant the First Law of Robotics]], because otherwise the human would've killed their child. No, how Emma was [[TruelySingleParent [[TrulySingleParent able to give birth]] is ''not'' explained.
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First published in ''Magazine/FantasticUniverse'' (October 1956 issue), by Creator/IsaacAsimov, and later published in their ''Literature/TheFantasticUniverseOmnibus'' (1960). Dr Asimov claims, in ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'', that this ShortStory is [[ParodyRetcon not intended to be taken seriously]].
Mike Donovan is at a bar, swapping stories about unusual robots with several others, when he admits to having known [[AIIsACrapshoot a robot who broke the First Law]]. Naturally, the [[FramingDevice crowd wants to hear the story]].
[[UnreliableExpositor Donovan's tale]] takes place on [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], with the first three MA model robots. He claims that, while endangered due to a storm pup and a violent storm, MA-2 abandoned him and ran off. In conclusion, it was because Emma had been [[MamaBear protecting her child]].
Not to be confused with Creator/JoeAbercrombie's ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' series. "First Law" has been republished four times; ''Literature/TheRestOfTheRobots'' (1964), ''Literature/ScienceFictionStories'' (1973), ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'' (1982), and ''20 récits d'anticipation et de science-fiction'' (2016).
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!!"First Law" contains examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: This is the first story where Michael Donovan appears without Gregory Powell, something that never happens in reverse.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The MA series were built for [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], but it was discovered that [[InSeriesNickname Emma Two]] had somehow [[TrulySingleParent given birth]] and abandoned a human for dead in clear violation of the [[ThreeLawsOfRobotics First Law]]. Donovan claims it was because [[MamaBear a mother's love is more powerful than its programming]].
* AliensAndMonsters: On [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], which is [[PerpetualStorm covered in storms]], is a species called a storm pup. These storm pup are the only creatures that can naturally survive a Titan storm and are also vicious creatures. Donovan believes that he's encountered one on his way back to base, but it was actually something else.
* AlienSky: [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]] is covered in [[PerpetualStorm almost constant storms]], which obscure Saturn and make the sun no larger than "a pale pimple".
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: As typical for Dr Asimov's short fiction, there is very little description for the characters or the setting in this story, emphasized by the FramingDevice where Donovan is telling the story of what happened to him on [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], which describes the [[AlienSky sky in some detail]], but doesn't describe anything else.
* FramingDevice: The story takes place in a bar, while Donovan tells the other patrons a story about a robot that gave birth and disobeyed the [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law of Robotics]].
* InevitablyBrokenRule: Mike Donovan [[[[UnreliableExpositor tells a pub]] about a robot, [[RobotNames MA-2]], that broke the First Law [[AIIsACrapshoot because it was a mother]], who was [[MamaBear protecting her offspring]].
* InSeriesNickname:
** The robot in this work is from the MA series, and is therefore nicknamed Emma.
** [[LastNameBasis MacFarlane]] is addressed by the common nickname Mac.
* LastNameBasis: Aside from Mike Donovan, the only other character with a speaking part is [=MacFarlane=], who Donovan also addresses as [[InSeriesNickname Mac]].
* TheLittleDetecto: The MA series is equipped with "vibro-detectors" because [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]] doesn't have a magnetic field and it had been difficult to stay oriented in the PerpetualStorm of its atmosphere. What the vibro-detectors actually detect isn't clear, since you can use gyrocompasses instead of magnetic compasses, which determine true north from the planet's rotation instead of its magnetic field.
* MamaBear: Emma Two abandoned a human in danger, violating [[ThreeLawsCompliant the First Law of Robotics]], because otherwise the human would've killed their child. No, how Emma was [[TruelySingleParent able to give birth]] is ''not'' explained.
* PerpetualStorm: [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]] is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere. According to Donovan, however, it storms eighty percent of the time. Even during the so-called "calm season", there's a chance for premature gusts to turn the sky dark and life-threatening.
* RobotNames: The MA robot series are [[InSeriesNickname often called]] Emma.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The MA series was built with the normal three laws, but the story only cites the [[TitleDrop First Law]] because that's [[AIIsACrapshoot what they broke]].
* TitleDrop: The title is a reference to the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]], and Donovan cites it.
* TrulySingleParent: Emma, a robot, somehow gave birth to a child. When a human [[MamaBear threatened her child]], she [[AIIsACrapshoot breaks]] the [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law]] in order to protect it.
* UnreliableExpositor: Donovan is telling a story about a robot that broke the [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law of Robotics]]. Aside from the fact that robots [[AIIsACrapshoot never break the laws]] or [[TrulySingleParent give birth]], Donovan is also the more... excitable of the Donovan-Powell duo. His narration is also suspicious because he names the MA series and "[[TheLittleDetecto vibro-detectors]]" as devices that were quickly taken off the market, making it hard-to-impossible to verify his story. Some of his internal first-person thoughts slip into the narration, which normally never happens.
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Mike Donovan is at a bar, swapping stories about unusual robots with several others, when he admits to having known [[AIIsACrapshoot a robot who broke the First Law]]. Naturally, the [[FramingDevice crowd wants to hear the story]].
[[UnreliableExpositor Donovan's tale]] takes place on [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], with the first three MA model robots. He claims that, while endangered due to a storm pup and a violent storm, MA-2 abandoned him and ran off. In conclusion, it was because Emma had been [[MamaBear protecting her child]].
Not to be confused with Creator/JoeAbercrombie's ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' series. "First Law" has been republished four times; ''Literature/TheRestOfTheRobots'' (1964), ''Literature/ScienceFictionStories'' (1973), ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'' (1982), and ''20 récits d'anticipation et de science-fiction'' (2016).
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!!"First Law" contains examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: This is the first story where Michael Donovan appears without Gregory Powell, something that never happens in reverse.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The MA series were built for [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], but it was discovered that [[InSeriesNickname Emma Two]] had somehow [[TrulySingleParent given birth]] and abandoned a human for dead in clear violation of the [[ThreeLawsOfRobotics First Law]]. Donovan claims it was because [[MamaBear a mother's love is more powerful than its programming]].
* AliensAndMonsters: On [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], which is [[PerpetualStorm covered in storms]], is a species called a storm pup. These storm pup are the only creatures that can naturally survive a Titan storm and are also vicious creatures. Donovan believes that he's encountered one on his way back to base, but it was actually something else.
* AlienSky: [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]] is covered in [[PerpetualStorm almost constant storms]], which obscure Saturn and make the sun no larger than "a pale pimple".
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: As typical for Dr Asimov's short fiction, there is very little description for the characters or the setting in this story, emphasized by the FramingDevice where Donovan is telling the story of what happened to him on [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]], which describes the [[AlienSky sky in some detail]], but doesn't describe anything else.
* FramingDevice: The story takes place in a bar, while Donovan tells the other patrons a story about a robot that gave birth and disobeyed the [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law of Robotics]].
* InevitablyBrokenRule: Mike Donovan [[[[UnreliableExpositor tells a pub]] about a robot, [[RobotNames MA-2]], that broke the First Law [[AIIsACrapshoot because it was a mother]], who was [[MamaBear protecting her offspring]].
* InSeriesNickname:
** The robot in this work is from the MA series, and is therefore nicknamed Emma.
** [[LastNameBasis MacFarlane]] is addressed by the common nickname Mac.
* LastNameBasis: Aside from Mike Donovan, the only other character with a speaking part is [=MacFarlane=], who Donovan also addresses as [[InSeriesNickname Mac]].
* TheLittleDetecto: The MA series is equipped with "vibro-detectors" because [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]] doesn't have a magnetic field and it had been difficult to stay oriented in the PerpetualStorm of its atmosphere. What the vibro-detectors actually detect isn't clear, since you can use gyrocompasses instead of magnetic compasses, which determine true north from the planet's rotation instead of its magnetic field.
* MamaBear: Emma Two abandoned a human in danger, violating [[ThreeLawsCompliant the First Law of Robotics]], because otherwise the human would've killed their child. No, how Emma was [[TruelySingleParent able to give birth]] is ''not'' explained.
* PerpetualStorm: [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Titan]] is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere. According to Donovan, however, it storms eighty percent of the time. Even during the so-called "calm season", there's a chance for premature gusts to turn the sky dark and life-threatening.
* RobotNames: The MA robot series are [[InSeriesNickname often called]] Emma.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The MA series was built with the normal three laws, but the story only cites the [[TitleDrop First Law]] because that's [[AIIsACrapshoot what they broke]].
* TitleDrop: The title is a reference to the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]], and Donovan cites it.
* TrulySingleParent: Emma, a robot, somehow gave birth to a child. When a human [[MamaBear threatened her child]], she [[AIIsACrapshoot breaks]] the [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law]] in order to protect it.
* UnreliableExpositor: Donovan is telling a story about a robot that broke the [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law of Robotics]]. Aside from the fact that robots [[AIIsACrapshoot never break the laws]] or [[TrulySingleParent give birth]], Donovan is also the more... excitable of the Donovan-Powell duo. His narration is also suspicious because he names the MA series and "[[TheLittleDetecto vibro-detectors]]" as devices that were quickly taken off the market, making it hard-to-impossible to verify his story. Some of his internal first-person thoughts slip into the narration, which normally never happens.
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