Feb 1, 2023
I FOUND AN EASTER EGG IN THE FOUNDATION SERIES!!!!!!!
feels like my weirdly specific knowledge of old-timey sci-fi just paid off
Near the end of Second Foundation (1953), the First Speaker off-handedly mentions that something is “a consequence of Leffert’s Theorem.”
George Lefferts was another sci-fi writer, at the time, most famous for adapting stories to radio for the series Dimension X (1950-1951), which featured stories by Isaac Asimov.
I did not know that they were friends & I can’t find anything online suggesting they were friends, but -- there was literally no reason to mention “Leffert’s Theorem” otherwise; it was just some technobabble. THEY WERE FRENNNNS!!!
#btw George Lefferts is the Dimension X writer whose name always stuck out to me#because EVERY EPISODE where the female characters were actually well-written and not cringe 1950s stereotypes#was written by George Lefferts#apparently in the 1960s he created an emmy-winning Women's Lib series so my impression of him from his sci-fi work was correct lol#MAYBE HE HELPED ASIMOV WRITE BETTER FEMALE CHARACTERS????#bc honestly I noticed a marked improvement over the course of the Foundation trilogy#the first book had literally zero (0) women#GEORGE DID U HELP HIM? XD#george lefferts#isaac asimov
