Randall Garrett, with whom Asimov had reconciled, said of the Three Laws of Robotics, “Isaac says John made them up and John says Isaac did, and I say they’re both right. The laws were invented in symbiotic cooperation.” Asimov agreed, and a few years later, when the Foundation trilogy won a special Hugo Award as the best series of all time, he simply said in his speech, “I would like to thank Mr. John W. Campbell, Jr., who had at least as much to do with the Foundation series as I had.”

