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

Foundation's Edge ( 1982 ) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series.

Foundation's Edge won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982.

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It was published in 1986, four years after the first sequel to the Foundation trilogy, which is titled Foundation's Edge.

The story follows on from Foundation's Edge, but can be read as a complete work in itself.

( It does, however, give away most of the mysteries that Foundation's Edge is built around.

Councilman Golan Trevize, historian Janov Pelorat, and Blissenobiarella of the planet Gaia ( all of whom were introduced in Foundation's Edge ) set out on a journey to find humanity's ancestral planet — Earth.

The purpose of the journey is to settle Trevize's doubt with his decision at the end of Foundation's Edge to embrace the all-encompassing supermind of Galaxia.

He also manipulated Trevize into making his decision at the end of Foundation's Edge ( although he did not manipulate the decision itself ).

Although hinted at in Foundation's Edge, this book was the first book of the series that merged it with Asimov's Robot series.

Foundation's Edge mentions algae growing on Trantor, which is called a totally inadequate source of food, so it is possible some of the later Emperors attempted to rectify the situation with limited success.

There are seven volumes in the Foundation Series proper, which in its in-universe chronological order are Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, and Foundation and Earth.

In 1981, after the series had long been considered one of the most important works of modern science fiction, Asimov was persuaded by his publishers to write a fourth book, which became Foundation's Edge ( 1982 ).

The basic link is however mentioned in Foundation's Edge: an obscure tradition about a first wave of space settlements with robots and then a second without.

In 1982, Asimov gave in after a thirty-year hiatus, and wrote what was at the time a fourth volume: Foundation's Edge.

Then, at some unknown date ( prior to writing Foundation's Edge ) Asimov decided to merge the Foundation / Empire series with his Robot series.

Also, in Foundation's Edge, mankind was referred to as having possessed interstellar space travel for only 22, 000 years, a far cry from the fifty millennia of earlier works.

Asimov placed a hint in Foundation's Edge, many years later, that the Eternals might have been responsible for the all-human galaxy ( and the development of humanity on Earth ) of the Foundation Series, but that interpretation is disputed.

The White Plague was nominated for a Locus Award for best science fiction novel in 1983, but lost to Isaac Asimov ’ s novel Foundation's Edge.

* Hugo Award for Best Novel: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

It might be an accidental use of the same technology — Asimov hints at a connection in Foundation's Edge, but never definitely settled the point.

( Asimov also carried out this unification in his novel Foundation's Edge, and its sequels, thus unifying the three series of fiction into a single future history ).

It would not be described in detail until Foundation's Edge.

The central group of the Foundation's advisors are, at any one period of time, the members of our Advisory Board, consisting, now, of thirty-six men and women.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

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Trevize and Pelorat discuss Pelorat's interest in Earth and its legends, and Trevize realizes that Seldon's phrase " at the other end of the Galaxy " ( the phrase he used to describe the Second Foundation's location ) could mean Earth.

After many attempts to unravel the only clue Seldon had given as to the Second Foundation's whereabouts (" at the other end of the Galaxy "), the Foundation is led to believe that the Second Foundation is located on Terminus.

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He was the featured performer at the Foundation's Soirée Bouquet, the annual spring gala.

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In 2008, she received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala.

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Also concurrent with this plot thread is the Foundation's ongoing conflict with the Mule's former imperial capital at Kalgan.

The K Foundation's television adverts on the evening of 23 November 1993 explained that the Foundation were currently " amending the history of art " at a secret location.

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