Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:11:21 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 11:54:30, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On October 05, 2002 at 10:58:06, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>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:
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>...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.
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>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.”
Oops... I have read these books (at least the first two) but it was a long time
ago. I had completely forgotten about this story!
Christophe
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