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Subject: Re: Who is he??? (NT)

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:54:30 10/05/02

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On October 05, 2002 at 10:58:06, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 13:18:35, ujecrh wrote:
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>>.


I wondered the same thing.  So I used Google.  Apparently, he was the main
character in the "Foundation" series of novels (which I tried to read at about
age 14 but got bored).  Here's a quote from one site found:


...Isaac Asimov has been called America’s most prolific author, with more than
440 published books. His subject matter covers a wide spectrum ranging from the
Bible, to Shakespeare, to science fiction. One of his best known series of
stories is known as the “Foundation Series.” It consists of six books (in story
order): Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation
and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation’s Edge, and Foundation and Earth.

Each of the books can stand on its own merit; however together they chronicle a
tale of nearly a thousand years sometime in the distant future. The central
character in all the books (although he only actually appears in the first two)
is Harry Seldon, a mathematician who has discovered a way to predict the future.
It is a new science that he calls “psychohistory.”



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