1726 ~ 1893
1872 Samuel Butler: Erewhon: satirical anti-technological utopia
1888 Edward Bellamy: Looking Backwards: popular utopia in which society seen as a giant factory
1890 William Morris: News From Nowhere: pastoral utopia
1893 Ambrose Bierce: Moxon's Master: artificial chess-player kills its maker
1905 ~ 1933
1905 H. G. Wells: A Modern Utopia: optimistic view of technologically-dependent society
1909 E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops: First technological dystopia, over-dependence on machines
1920 Yevgeny Zamiatin: We: dystopian vision of society in which people treated like machines
1921 Karel Capek: R.U.R.: robots that develop consciousness; satire on treating people like machines
1930 Miles J. Breuer: Paradise and Iron: robotic brain coordinating technological utopia turns into tyrant
Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt: City of the Living Dead: machines simulate real experience for people
1934 ~ 1949
1934 J. Storer Clouston: Button Brains: mistaken identity (robot/human)
1934 Harl Vincent: Rex: robot Rex takes over the world but commits suicide
1940 Isaac Asimov: Robbie: amiable robot saves child's life
1941 Isaac Asimov: Reason: robot becomes curious about own existence
1942 First appearance of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

1944 Theodore Sturgeon: Killdozer: parable about machines acting independently of human control
Isaac Asimov: Evidence: robot simulates human
1947 Isaac Asimov: Little Lost Robot: robot lacks humour
Jack Williamson: With Folded Hands: robots prepared to use lobotomies to 'protect' human beings
1950 Isaac Asimov: The Evitable Conflict: optimistic vision of computer-controlled world government
Clifford D. Simak: Skirmish: machines revolt
Isaac Asimov: The Fun They Had: mechanical teacher
Isaac Asimov: Satisfaction Guaranteed: mistaken identity (robot/human)
Lord Dunsany: The Last Revolution: revolution of the machines
Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano: dystopian vision of automation
Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God: computer ends everything
Philip K Dick: Second Variety: robot out of control
Philip K Dick: Imposter: mistaken identity (robot/human)

1955 Isaac Asimov: Risk: robot test-pilot of spaceship has to be replaced by a human being
Robert Bloch: Comfort Me, My Robot: mistaken identity (robot/human)
Philip K. Dick: Autofac: machines can self-reproduce
Walter Miller: The Darfsteller: actor made redundant by robot theatre; mistaken identity (robot/human)
1956 ~ 1967
Isaac Asimov: The Jokester: computer discovers origin of jokes
Isaac Asimov: The Naked Sun: robot out of control
Robert Silverberg: The Macauley Circuit: computers compose music
Clifford D. Simak: So Bright the Vision: machine-produced literature
1964 Philip K. Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch: robotic psychiatrist
Stanislav Lem: The Invincible: machines as autonomous
Peter Currell Brown: Smallcreep's Day: surreal satire of automation
1968 ~ 1978
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: blurred distinction between life and mechanism
Robert Silverberg: Going Down Smooth: robotic psychiatrist
John Sladek: The Reproductive System: machines can self-reproduce
Philip K. Dick: The Electric Ant: man awakes to discover he's a robot
Philip K Dick: We Can Build You: blurred distinction life and mechanism
Ira Levin: This Perfect Day: dystopia
Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives: women replaced by robots
1974 Isaac Asimov: That Thou Art Mindful of Him: robot develops judgement
Barrington J Bayley: The Soul of the Robot
1976 Isaac Asimov: The Bicentennial Man: robot produces carvings; blurred distinction life/mechanism
Frederik Pohl: Gateway: robotic psychiatrist