Asimov's Empire Novels are being rereleased! spoilers :(

[Tychu]

I couldn't fit my whole topic in the topic box but....

Yes the Empire novels by Asimov are finally being rereleased. Starting with "Pebble in the Sky" it will be out on January 8th.


Well its been two years in the making but I finally finished the Foundation Series (still have to read Forward the Foundation) but thats not really important. My 2006 Asimov needs
All in all it was a great series, though I kind of found that Asimov got a little too sexual in his old age... I really don't care that Pelorat was having sex with 20something year old Bliss and others.

I am a bit confused though (im sure my old Asimov tutor (soontir c'both can help me out again). What exactly did Asimov mean for the very last paragraph in Foundation and Earth. "The enemy has never impinged on our development" "Trevise never looked down into the diffrent, unfathomably eyes of Faloom". Was he trying to say that Faloom was an intergalactic alien that is going to destroy Earth or will she be conqured when Olivaw incorporates her into his mind? I will be really pissed off if after all that searching Galaxia is never completed because some hermaphodite alien outsmarted the smartest beings alive

[Batman]

I always understood that paragraph (which BTW doesn't exactly read like that) to mean that while Trevize decided on Galaxia because there might be an extragalactic alien lifeform that could threaten the Seldon plan by not following human behavioural patterns and thus not being predictable via Seldon's equations, Fallon and her ilk meant there was ALREADY an inhuman and therefore unpredictable lifeform smack dab in the middle of the Milky Way.

And I didn't know the Empire novels had ever been OUT of print, at least relatively recently (i.e. last decade or so).

[Binaroid]

I am a bit confused though (im sure my old Asimov tutor (soontir c'both can help me out again). What exactly did Asimov mean for the very last paragraph in Foundation and Earth. "The enemy has never impinged on our development" "Trevise never looked down into the diffrent, unfathomably eyes of Faloom". Was he trying to say that Faloom was an intergalactic alien that is going to destroy Earth or will she be conqured when Olivaw incorporates her into his mind? I will be really pissed off if after all that searching Galaxia is never completed because some hermaphodite alien outsmarted the smartest beings alive

I thought the implication was that, after thousands of years of genetic manipulation, isolation, and cultural speciation, Fallom and the other Solarians were at least as alien as anything else that could arrive from outside of the galaxy -- and at least as likely to become an enemy of humanity in general.

[Soontir C'boath]

Reading the paragraph again (after so many years!), I'd have to agree with the above posters, but apparently Olivaw doesn't consider them enemies as they are a solitary race as well as the fact that Solaria was practically a lost world until Trevise found them. I don't remember Faloom's character much anymore but I don't remember her the type that would compromise their relations.

[Batman]

Daneel wants him/her/it for the highly developed brain. There isn't any elaboration on wether or not there is any/Daneel recognizes any danger to humanity from the then-Solarians other than the implication that the aliens are already among Federationverse us.

[Tychu]

See I didn't think that at all. ( I don't have the book infront of me.. at my fathers house right now.. but thanks for pointing out it was a little different ). For me I read it as... That throughout the Trevize Duology it is stated that he can take little bits of facts and make the correct actions/answers.... Except for this one time. He was the one that came to conclusion that Olivaw should take Falloms mind and it would be better for Galaxia. The last sentence made me believe that he was infact wrong and that Fallom will ruin Galaxia and the Human race.

[Tychu]

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And I didn't know the Empire novels had ever been OUT of print, at least relatively recently (i.e. last decade or so).

Well for two years now I've been looking for them in bookstores with no luck, and the internet only has used copies from the 80's. I only now came across the Hardcover rerelease on Amazon.com