![]() ![]() Though their secret status is finally divulged to a select few, the Arisians in E E Smith's Lensman sequence (see his entry for dates) do not reveal their true selves, nor the Godgame they are playing with the species they have created, so as not to impose a fatal inferiority complex upon their descendants. In tales involving Forerunners and their relationship to the species they may have Uplifted, something like a Prime Directive may be evoked, usually to justify the secrecy of their role. Mike Scott's answer says that TV Tropes dates it to Olaf Stapledon's The Star Maker, (1937), which is a great classic of science fiction.īut the online science Fiction Encyclopedia is less certain who was first. I just located a quotation mentioning such a rule from a 1897 novel. I don't know when a noninterference rule first appeared in science fiction. ![]()
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