Asimov's Foundation

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this is to test if what Garry said works, said Lewis Pirenne

[foundation-asimov]

Five more years would see the publication of the first volume of the most monumental work the Galaxy had ever conceived. And then at ten-year intervals – regularly –like clockwork – volume after volume. And with them there would be supplements; special articles on events of current interest

THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS

[foundation-asimov]

Fifty years now; fifty years to establish themselves and set up Encyclopedia Foundation Number One into a smoothly working unit. Fifty years to gather the raw material. Fifty years to prepare.

THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS

[foundation-asimov]

Work had to be co-ordinated. Effort had to be organized. Threads had to be woven into a pattern.

THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS

[foundation-asimov]

desk in the one well-lit corner of the room

THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS

[foundation-asimov]

Lewis Pirenne was busily engaged at his desk

THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS

[foundation-asimov]

Salvor Hardin, first of the great line of...

ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA

[foundation-asimov]

TERMINUS–... Its location (see map) was an odd one for the role it was called upon to play in Galactic history, and yet as many writers have never tired of pointing out, an inevitable one. Located on the very fringe of the Galactic spiral, an only planet of an isolated sun, poor in resources and negligible in economic value, it was never settled in the five centuries after its discovery, until the landing of the Encyclopedists.... It was inevitable that as a new generation grew, Terminus would become something more than an appendage of the psychohistorians of Trantor.

ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA