Foundation and Earth (1986)
Foundation and Earth is a 1986 fiction book written by Isaac Asimov.
Golan Trevize has made his choice about the future of the human race, and it unsettles him. He picked Gaia, a living planet where every rock, plant, and person shares one consciousness, then found he could not say why. To settle the doubt, Trevize sets out to find Earth, the forgotten homeworld that no record in the galaxy will name. With the scholar Pelorat and the Gaian woman Bliss aboard his ship, he follows faint clues through abandoned worlds. Asimov's final Foundation novel plays as a road trip across deep time, chasing the root of everything the series has built.
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Golan Trevize has made his choice about the future of the human race, and it unsettles him. He picked Gaia, a living planet where every rock, plant, and person shares one consciousness, then found he could not say why. To settle the doubt, Trevize sets out to find Earth, the forgotten homeworld that no record in the galaxy will name. With the scholar Pelorat and the Gaian woman Bliss aboard his ship, he follows faint clues through abandoned worlds. Asimov's final Foundation novel plays as a road trip across deep time, chasing the root of everything the series has built.
When was Foundation and Earth published?
Foundation and Earth was published in 1986.
Who made Foundation and Earth?
Foundation and Earth was written by Isaac Asimov.
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A few thoughts on Foundation and Earth
Interstellar pairs beautifully with this hunt for Earth, both stories driven by the pull of humanity's origin and destiny across deep space. Silo shares the mystery of a truth buried on purpose. For a cinematic galactic epic in the same key, Denis Villeneuve's Dune makes a strong next watch.
Long journeys across space chasing the truth about where we came from
Foundation and Earth sends Golan Trevize across the galaxy chasing a homeworld that no record in the galaxy will name. Interstellar and Project Hail Mary follow the same kind of desperate, years-long voyage in search of answers, 2001: A Space Odyssey turns that search into a meditation on where humanity began, and Dune and Silo bury their own version of that same forgotten origin story.
Games about piecing together a lost civilization while you explore its ruins
Foundation and Earth turns its search for humanity's origin into a road trip through abandoned worlds, each one holding a fragment of a much older story. Breath of the Wild and Assassin's Creed II hand players the same kind of ruin-by-ruin detective work, and BioShock, BioShock Infinite and Mass Effect 2 all build entire games around exploring a fallen civilization to learn what actually happened there.
Manga about journeys that stretch across galaxies and lifetimes
Foundation and Earth is Asimov's last road trip through his own universe, a small crew crossing deep space chasing something bigger than any single life. Galaxy Express 999 and Phoenix stretch that same idea across the universe and the span of history, Space Brothers and Doraemon turn that pull toward the stars into something more personal, and 20th Century Boys tracks a mystery that keeps unfolding as you follow it.