Talk:Foundation (novel)
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[edit] Seldon never left Trantor
"He and his team are exiled to Terminus, a small planet on the periphery of the galaxy, to work on the encyclopedia."
My memory might be faulty (with my advanced age, of course) but I do believe Seldon never left Trantor. →Raul654 05:31, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)
- You're right, he didn't. But I don't feel like digging out my copy of the book to find out what he was doing Lefty 05:40, 2004 Feb 18 (UTC)
- IIRC, he was sent to a final meeting with Cheng(?). He uses psychohistory to predict he'll be exiled, or possibily even executed. He ends up getting his foundaion though, and I think he was senetenced to house arrest. He dies just as their are installing the time vault, before the colonists have arrived. But someone should really check this. →Raul654 06:01, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)
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- At the end of Forward the Foundation, there is an entry in the Encyclopedia Galactica explaining that Hari Seldon died in his office at Streeling University. The Foundation project as a whole was exiled to Terminus, but Seldon stayed in Trantor --Piman 09:23, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
He was sentenced to exile by Chen... in fact the sentence was phrased in terms of Hari first and the project second. However, later events might have led to a compromise, being that Hari was old and felt himself near death, and that he was willing to cut all ties with the project, stop predicting ruin, etcetera once the exile had begun. 66.207.110.2 11:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Physohistorians and Wikipedists?
I picked up my copy the other day and started to wonder, what if something like that happened with wiki? we find that our ultimate goal isn't to create the perfect encyclopedia, but to let the universe take advantage of us for another more worthy goal..? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]]).
- Great. If you are sent to a new planet, with the whole of Wikimedia Foundation, and unlimited access to Earth library; how long would it take you to build a nuclear reactor?Hillgentleman 05:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broken External Link
I removed this external link from the Article page because it is broken
TheLimbicOne 18:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Encyclopedists cliffhanger?
In 'The Encyclopedists,' details as to Hardin's plans for dealing with the four kingdoms are not mentioned directly. The solution to the puzzle was only given in the opening of 'The Mayors.' 66.207.110.2 11:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Which was the starting point of the Interregnum?
F.E.1 or the Great Sack? I would think it should be the Great Sack, but it seems that First Foundationers think otherwise.Hillgentleman 03:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Importance rating
Top importance novel? Come on! I liked it too, but... It's top importance among science fiction novels, but not within literature or culture. It didn't trascend the genre like 1984. I'll change it to high.--Rataube 14:23, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
