The city-planet was inspired by Trantor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga.

* Isaac Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica as presented in The Foundation Series is an attempt to compile all human knowledge in order to preserve it following the collapse of the Galactic Empire in the far future.

Isaac Asimov's fictional Galactic Empire and Foundation series refer to Pax Trantorica and Pax Imperium.

The Galactic Empire series ( also called the Empire novels or trilogy ) is a science fiction sequence of three of Isaac Asimov's earliest novels, and extended to one short story.

They are connected by their early place in his published works and chronological placement within his overarching Foundation Universe, set around the rise of Asimov's Galactic Empire, between the Robot and Foundation series to which they were linked in Asimov's later novels.

Their main common points are Asimov's idea of a future Galactic Empire, certain aspects of technology — hyperdrive, blaster pistols, " neuronic whips ," the possible invention of the " Visi-Sonor " — and particular locations, such as the planet Trantor.

* Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire

The Galactic Era dating system, to which most of Asimov's Foundation Series adheres, places Foundation and Earth approximately twelve thousand years after the events of Pebble in the Sky.

Asimov's Encyclopædia Galactica was a compendium of all knowledge then available in the Galactic Empire, intended to preserve that knowledge in a remote region of the Galaxy in the event of a foreseen Galactic catastrophe.

Robots and Empire is part of Asimov's consolidation of his three major series of science fiction stories and novels: his Robot series, his Galactic Empire series and his Foundation series.

But Asimov's later Galactic Empire is populated by many quadrillions of human beings on hundreds of thousands of habitable planets ; and by very few robots ( such as R. Daneel Olivaw ).

) Therefore, Asimov's novel attempts to describe how his earlier Robot series ultimately connects to his Galactic Empire series.

The book is part of Asimov's Galactic Empire series.

Psychohistory is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, etc., and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire.

In Isaac Asimov's Robot / Empire / Foundation series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of millions of planets settled by humans across the whole Milky Way Galaxy.

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, at its height the Galactic Empire had expanded to encompass the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

* Dagobert IX, a Galactic Emperor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire

* The planet Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.

The empire of Songmaster is a place of treachery, resembling that of ancient Rome and the Galactic Empire of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

* The Martian Way: Asimov's response to the McCarthy Era and an early exploration of terraforming Mars

* The Encyclopedia Galactica in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series was created in Terminus at the beginning of the Foundation Era.

The Martian Way was Asimov's response to the McCarthy Era and an early exploration of terraforming Mars.

It begins with a short introduction ( six pages in the Doubleday hardcover edition ) giving various details on the stories, such as how they came to be written, or what significance merits their inclusion in a " best of " collection, as well as some of Dr. Asimov's thoughts on a best of collection itself.

In the episode Datalore, Lieutenant Natasha Yar refers to the positronic brain as Asimov's dream ( although in reality, Asimov admitted that he was only looking for a " scientific " sounding word when choosing the term " positronic ").

In Asimov's fictional universe, the innermost planet orbiting Tau Ceti was mankind's very first extrasolar planetary settlement, established at some point between the discovery of the hyperspatial jump in 2031 A. D. and 2064 A. D., when numerous extrasolar colonies were mentioned by Susan Calvin during an interview given in that year.

Asimov's story, originally titled " Pilgrimage ", appeared in 1942 ; Asimov had been unable to sell the piece elsewhere, and rewrote it numerous times for different editors, adding a religious element at John Campbell's request, and removing it again when Malcolm Reiss asked for further changes.

Isaac Asimov apparently had in mind this story when he wrote "... That Thou Art Mindful of Him ",, since Asimov's title is from the same Bible verse, and two of Asimov's robots debate the same subject.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.

In Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation and Empire, there is a mention of the myriaton.

* Isaac Asimov's Robots, Empire, and Foundation stories ( the links between many of the stories are a retcon )

Next, they go to Solaria, where they find that the Solarians — who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire — have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodite beings, who have remained generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact.

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and Empire series of science fiction novels.

The three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name ( David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name " Paul French ", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels ).

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire series depict a common theme of a destroyed Earth.

Very complex brains designed to handle world economy interpret the First Law in expanded sense to include humanity as opposed to a single human ; in Asimov's later works like Robots and Empire this is referred to as the " Zeroth Law ".

Olivaw appears in Asimov's Robot and Foundation series, most notably in the novels The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation and Earth.

Their homeworld, Hearth, is a city-planet similar to Asimov's Trantor, albeit populated by tripodal aliens.

* Isaac Asimov's story " The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline " is a fictional research paper about a compound that dissolves before being added to water that cites only and entirely false sources.

Gaia is depicted as a mysterious planet in Isaac Asimov's science fiction ' Foundation's Edge '.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

There is a reference back to the events of Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky: we learn that the restoration of Earth's soil was indeed attempted but was abandoned.

This danger is part of the conclusion to Asimov's book The End of Eternity, in which " Project Eternity " ( which manipulated human history to maintain human comfort ) had to be destroyed to undo that same extraterrestrial disaster -— extraterrestrials giving humanity no hope of expansion, at which point the birth rate fell, and humanity became extinct.

Orson Scott Card remarked favorably on the novel, noting that although it was " all talk, no action -- but Asimov's talk is action.

In Foundation's Triumph, the last book in the Second Foundation Trilogy authorized by Asimov's estate, another possible future for the Galaxy is discussed.

Coruscant is one of the more convincing images on screen we have today of Isaac Asimov's conception of the world-girdling city of Trantor.

Asimov's Trantor thus differs from Coruscant in that Trantor is more practically adapted to inclement weather, although weather control devices are used on both planets.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

There is also another set of novels by various authors ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series ), loosely connected to the Robots Series, but containing many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, which are not generally considered canon.

The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the " inaction " clause, the same modification made in " Little Lost Robot "; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience ; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second ( i. e., a " New Law " robot cannot be ordered to destroy itself ); finally, Allen adds a Fourth Law which instructs the robot to do " whatever it likes " so long as this does not conflict with the first three laws.

His name is derived from Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series and the " Lone Star State " of Texas, as well as being a parody on the last names of the two heroes of Star Wars, Solo ( Lone ) and Skywalker ( Star ).

* In Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves, Selene Lindstrom, is a major character of the third part, which occurs on the Moon.

It is eventually discovered that the bacterial life on Erythro forms a collective organism that possesses a form of consciousness and telepathy ( a concept similar to the Gaia of Asimov's Foundation series ).