Foundation and Earth

by Isaac Asimov

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Series (with order)

Foundation - Chronological (7)

Foundation & Robot (15)

Foundation - Publication (5)

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Foundation and Earth

Original publication date

1986

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1986)

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'Why did I do it?' asked Golan Trevize.

Last words

And he did not look down to meet the brooding eyes of Fallom - hermaphroditic, transductive, different - as they rested, unfathomably, on him.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553587579, Mass Market Paperback)

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.

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