Nikola Kesarovski () (c. 11 November 1944 – 29 August 2007) was a Bulgarian

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. His most famous

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is '' The Fifth Law of Robotics'', published in 1983, the title being a reference to

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and the fifth law being that a robot must know that it is a robot. The science- fiction

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"Fantastica" was founded in 1997 in the town of

Kardzhali Kardzhali ( , ''Kărdžali''; ), sometimes spelt Kardžali or Kurdzhali, is List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, a town in the Eastern Rhodopes in Bulgaria, centre of Kardzhali Municipality and Kardzhali Province. The noted Kardzhali Reservoir is ...

, in the south of Bulgaria by him. 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''. He was also organizer and kind host of the annual Bulgarian science-fiction

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"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.

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Bulgarian male writers 1930s births 2007 deaths {{sf-writer-stub