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Foundation and Earth
A Quest for Origins Across the Stars
by Isaac AsimovScience FictionSpace Opera
Foundation
Originally in English1986
Story #522 chapters568 pages12h read
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About This Book
Councilman Golan Trevize is haunted by a mysterious decision he can’t explain, driving him to seek answers on the enigmatic planet Gaia. As he and his companions traverse distant worlds, their search for humanity’s true origins uncovers secrets that could reshape the fate of the galaxy. Will Trevize find the answers he seeks, or only more questions lurking in the shadows of space?
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Isaac Asimov
1920–1992
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was a prolific Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Born in Petrovichi, Russia, Asimov immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of three and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his degrees from Columbia University, receiving a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1948. While pursuing his academic career, Asimov began writing science fiction stories and quickly became one of the most recognized voices in the genre. Over the course of his life, he authored or edited more than 500 books, spanning topics from science fiction to history and popular science.
Places and Terms in this Book
Earth— The legendary, long-lost planet of origin for humanity, whose location and history have been deliberately obscured or forgotten.
Gaia— A sentient, planetary superorganism where all living and non-living components share a common mind and personality. It is presented as a potential future for the entire Galaxy.
Far Star— Golan Trevize's personal gravitic ship, used for interstellar travel.
Comporellon— A planet that is the current destination of Trevize's ship, believed to hold information about Earth.
Terminus— The home planet of the First Foundation and where Golan Trevize served as a Councilman.
Solaria— A Forbidden World, heavily populated by robots and inhabited by isolated Solarians, where Trevize's group lands.
Vocabulary
gravitic ship— A type of advanced spacecraft that operates independently of gravitational fields, affecting its travel and "Jump" experience.
Isolates— A term used by Bliss to refer to individuals who are not part of a collective consciousness like Gaia, emphasizing their separate and individual nature.
Isolate— A term used by the collective consciousness of Gaia to refer to an individual human being, emphasizing their separate and distinct existence.
Jump— A term for initiating faster-than-light travel through hyperspace.
blaster— A type of energy weapon, commonly used in the Galactic Empire.
neuronic whip— A weapon that inflicts intense pain by stimulating the pain nerves, designed to incapacitate rather than kill.
