Foundation and Earth (Paperback, 1987, Del Rey)
Mass Market Paperback, 494 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1987 by Del Rey.
FOUNDATIONS'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 his 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.
Im Roman davor gab es schon Anzeichen davon aber hier hat es Asimov auf die Spitze getrieben. Der male ganze trifft nahezu jede auftretende Frauenfigur auf höchst unangenehme Weise und die Story fühlt sich an wie eine Aneinanderreihung von Ideen die alle unbedingt noch ins Buch sollten. Schade.
A good read, and apart from the 3 laws for robots, I now realise there was also a 4th law: Zeroth Law is: ‘A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.’ This automatically means that the First Law must be modified to be: ‘A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except where that would conflict with the Zeroth Law.’ And similar modifications must be made in the Second and Third Laws.” But this book also answered many questions and also revealed a plan that is older than Seldon’s Plan…
