Foundation and Earth

Book Details

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Author(s):

Isaac Asimov

First Pub:

1986

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

1993

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 28

Part I - Gaea

1 - The Search Begins

2 - Toward Comporellon

Part II - Comporellon

3 - At the Entry Station

4 - On Comporellon

5 - Struggle for the Ship

6 - The Name of Earth

7 - Leaving Comporellon

Part III - Aurora

8 - Forbidden World

9 - Facing the Pack

Part IV - Solaria

10 - Robots

11 - Underground

12 - To the Surface

Part V - Melpomenia

13 - Away from Solaria

14 - Dead Planet

15 - Moss

Part VI - Alpha

16 - The Center of the Worlds

17 - New Earth

18 - The Music Festival

Part VII - Earth

19 - Radioactive?

20 - The Nearby World

21 - The Search Ends

Internal ID:

126

Series:

<- Foundation's Edge - Prelude to Foundation ->

Foundation*

#5 of 7

Foundation*

A series of science fiction books written by Isaac Asimov. They also tie in with the Robot series.

View this series in the book list

1) Foundation
2) Foundation and Empire
3) Second Foundation
4) Foundation's Edge
5) Foundation and Earth
6) Prelude to Foundation
7) Forward the Foundation

Copyright:

Dedication:

IN MEMORY OF JUDY-LYNN DEL REY
(1946 - 1986),

A GIANT IN MIND AND SPIRIT.

First Sentence:

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

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

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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Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 04-Mar-2023

Publications

12-Sep-1987

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

12-Sep-1987

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$4.95

Pages*:

494

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

651

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-33996-7

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-33996-6

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Michael Whelan - Cover Artist

FOUNDATION'S END?

Centuries after the fall of the First Galactic Empire, Mankind's destiny lay in the hands of Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation. Reluctantly he chose the mental unity of Galaxia as the only alternative to a future of unending chaos.

But Mankind as massmind was not an idea Trevize was comfortable with. So he journeyed in search of humanity's legendary home, fabled Earth, hoping there to find a solution to the dilemma.

Yet Earth had been lost for thousands of years, and no one could say exactly where it was or if, indeed, it existed at all. More important, Trevize suspected he might not like the answers he found there...

THE FOUNDATION SERIES CONTINUES ITS EXCITING
RETELLING OF FUTURE HISTORY - MANKIND'S
STRUGGLE TO FULFILL ITS GALACTIC DESTINY

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION

THE FOUNDATION SERIES:
BOOK ONE
FOUNDATION
BOOK TWO
FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
BOOK THREE
SECOND FOUNDATION
BOOK FOUR
FOUNDATION'S EDGE
BOOK FIVE
FOUNDATION AND EARTH

ALL AVAILABLE FROM
DEL REY BOOKS

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First International Edition: September 1987
First U.S. Edition: October 1987

Author(s)

Isaac Asimov
Birth: 02 Jan 1920 Petrovichi, Russia
Death: 06 Apr 1992 New York, USA

Notes:

Contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during a triple bypass heart surgery.

Awards

1987

Locus Magazine

Best SF Novel

Nominee

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