Quinn attempts to take clandestine X-ray photographs, but Byerley wears a device which fogs the camera he says that he is upholding his civil rights, as he would do for others if he is elected. She offers him an apple Byerley takes a bite, but he may have been designed with a stomach. Susan Calvin, the Chief Robopsychologist of U.S. No one has ever seen Byerley eat or sleep, Quinn reports.Īll attempts to prove or disprove Byerley's humanity fail, but Quinn's smear campaign slowly persuades voters until it becomes the only issue in the campaign. Robots and Mechanical Men corporation, the world's only supplier of positronic robot brains, for proof that Byerley must be a robot. Most voters do not believe Quinn but if he is correct Byerley's campaign will end, as only humans can legally run for office. The Byerley who appears in public is a humanoid robot, Quinn says, created by the real Byerley who is now the robot's mysterious unseen 'teacher', now away doing unspecified scientific work. His opponent Francis Quinn's political machine claims that the real Stephen Byerley was permanently disfigured and crippled by the accident. After a slow recovery he becomes a successful district attorney, and runs for mayor of a major American city. Stephen Byerley is severely injured in a car accident.

His wife, Gertrude Blugerman, advised him to hold out for more money, but neither of them considered option payments which could be renewed every several years, allowing the movie rights to relapse if Welles took no action. Asimov thought that he would become famous from a movie based on the story, but Welles never used the script.

Orson Welles purchased film rights for 'Evidence' for $250. He began the story at Camp Lee in January, finished it in April in Honolulu while waiting to go to Operation Crossroads, and sold it to editor John W.

'Evidence' was the only story Isaac Asimov wrote while in the United States Army from November 1945 to July 1946. It was first published in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). ' Evidence' is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

Science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov Evidence

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