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	Gaia (Foundation universe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name is derived from the Gaia hypothesis, which is itself eponymous to Gaia, the Earth Goddess.
		Gaia is located in the Sayshell Sector, about 10 parsecs (32 light years) from Sayshell.
		Gaia is able to channel the kinetic energy of its matter, a phenomenon Asimov calls transduction.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Gaia_(Foundation_universe) (794 words)

	Gaia Summary
		GAIA theory was first proposed by the English scientist James Lovelock in 1979 to explain how and why, as life appeared on the planet and grew abundant, its evolution and the earth's evolution merged into a single dynamic system he called Gaia.
		Gaia is thus not only an attempt to specify a unifying framework for the operation of the entire earth system, but also an explicit critique of the existing organization of knowledge inquiry.
		Gaia has had little effect on research agendas, however, and the number of working scientists willing to be associated with the hypothesis is small—perhaps less than a dozen.
	www.bookrags.com /Gaia (3042 words)

	The History of the Positronic Robot and Foundation Stories, 1973-1988
		Asimov was pleased at finally having written a bestselling novel after more than thirty years as a novelist and forty years as a writer.
		The plot would require Asimov to describe the relationship in some detail, and this would be terribly difficult to do in the social climate of the 1950s.
		Instead, Asimov seized upon a remark made to him by a fan who told him he had always wanted to know what had happened to Hari Seldon when he was young, and how he had come to invent psychohistory.
	www.asimovonline.com /oldsite/Robot_Foundation_history_5.html (2610 words)

	Foundation's Edge (1982)
		Gaia, however, turns out not to be Earth, but a planet that is one conscious organism, of which every human, every animal, every insect, every plant, and every rock, is a member.
		Gaia possesses mental capacity far exceeding that of the Second Foundation, and it has used it to guide Trevize, Mayor Branno, and Speaker Gendibal to converge on the planet.
		That is, the fate of the Galaxy is thrown to intuition.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/isaac-asimov/foundations-edge.html (917 words)

	Review of Foundation‘s Edge
		Asimov, however, made the decision that his two major universes should be one, and set out to begin the explanation in Foundation’s Edge of why we see no robots on Terminus.
		At the same time, Asimov needed something to drive the action and that something was going to be yet another threat to the Seldon Plan.
		Gaia also represents the kind of world-organism Asimov had objected to in "Green Patches", here, however, made the ideal destiny of mankind.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book262.html (625 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Asimov was born in 1920 near Smolensk in Russia.
		Asimov, along with Arther C Clarke, Frank Herbert and Robert Heinlein, was writing in what is now seen as the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
		Isaac Asimov was a Humanist and a rationalist.
	home.clara.net /heureka/art/isaac-asimov.htm (1304 words)

	Foundation‘s Triumph
		In both Asimov’s robot stories and the Foundation novels, the Good Doctor starts off by introducing early a compelling idea–the Three Laws and psychohistory–and works out its ramifications as he goes along; and, unfortunately, one of the ramifications of psychohistory is that it gets in the way of good story-telling.
		Asimov had introduced the Mule as a way to wreck the Plan (at John Campbell’s insistence), then fleshed out the Second Foundation as a way to deal with the Mule and restore it.
		Asimov’s thinking was right in line with the more spectacular ideas coming out of the 1940’s; but it seems dated now, especially in its underestimation of the possibilities of humanity reinventing itself physically and mentally.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/NonAsimov/Brin.html (1924 words)

	Gaia
		Gaia theory is a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planet's biosphere to make it more hospitable to life.
		Gaia philosophy is a set of varied philosophical views related to the Gaia theory.
		Gaia is the name of a space astronomy mission, due for launch in 2011 by the European Space Agency.
	www.gamelow.com /Stories-G/Gaia.php (764 words)

	Foundation and Earth - Asimov - A Wikia wiki
		He caused the settlement of Alpha Centauri, the creation of Gaia, and the creation of Psychohistory (detailed in Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation).
		Trevize confirms his decision, as the numerous narrow escapes have convinced him that the creation of Galaxia is the correct choice.
		It has been said that Isaac Asimov was planning to write a sequel about the Solarians attempting to take over the Galaxy.
	asimov.wikia.com /wiki/Foundation_and_Earth (364 words)

	Forward and Backward with the Foundation
		Asimov's model is presumably the linguistic unity of the U.S: different planets have regionalisms and accents, but not separate languages.
		Asimov introduces races here, or rather posits that "Westerners", "Easterners" and "Southerners" have maintained themselves as races for 12,000 years of galactic history, and even retained typical names-- the Easterners have distinctly Chinese names, not even as worn-down as the "Western" names are.
		Asimov's book, to say nothing of Benford's, makes it clear that several Emperors were quite familiar with what psychohistory was, were indeed patrons of the project.
	www.zompist.com /asimov.htm (6215 words)

	THE ASIMOV SCENARIO: PREDICTING OUTCOMES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CYBERSPACE
		Gaia presents the critical options and holds the ultimate responsibility for seeing to it that the choice, once made, is executed.
		Asimov’s scenario avoids all of the above by focusing primarily on the consequences of behavior leading to the conflict and the potential payoffs of participating in the conflict.
		Gaia’s response is to design a plan that will be appealing to individual users--after the economies of millions of users tire of suffering from the struggle.
	www.ceptualinstitute.com /genre/dockens/cyberscenario.htm (9836 words)

	Foundation and Earth (1986)
		In this one, Asimov tries to undo the damage he'd done in Foundation's Edge, in which Trevize, a perfectly sane human being from Terminus, was confronted with the difficult choice of the future of the entire Galaxy.
		He was given three options: a Second Empire under the technological prowess of the First Foundation, a more subtle Empire under the mental control of the Second Foundation, or Galaxia, a galaxy-wide organism in which human beings would lose their individuality and become parts of a common grand consciousness.
		Asimov can never even come close to the sexual innuendo in Heinlein's works, and he lacks the grace and good humor of the Grand Master to make it seem light and natural.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-earth.html (1251 words)

	Foundation's Edge - Asimov - A Wikia wiki
		It was written thirty years after the Foundation trilogy, in 1982, due to pressure by fans on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher.
		Bliss admits to Trevize that his being led to Gaia was done by them so he could make that an untouched mind, especially Trevize's because of his amazing intuition, could decide the galaxy's fate.
		Trevize also mentions that his choice of Gaia is because he knows he can change his decision, due to the slowness of Gaia's processes.
	asimov.wikia.com /wiki/Foundation's_Edge (1184 words)

	GAIA Print Charger: Print, Net & Copy Cost Recovery & Monitoring - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gaia will be inviting schools to consider setting up "reciprocal links" between their website and Gaia.
		Gaia Computing is the leader in the field of Cost Recovery and Wastage Reduction of printing and Internet resources and will keep its competition at bay by constant innovation and listening to end users.
		Gaia is continually cross grading users from their competitors' products to Gaia software and, in these cases; win them over by having a superior product that offers many management advantages.
	www.printcharger.com /About.shtml (1205 words)

	Steve's Hugo Reviews
		The characters, never Asimov's strongest point, are more colorless than usual, the dialogue, again usually workmanlike (competent, not exciting) is akward and occasionally wince-producing, and some of the philosophy that the book proposes isn't very desirable or good.
		Gaia promptly shows it's ability to lead justly by mind-wiping anyone who knew about Gaia and mind controlling people to resolve a few loose ends.
		Gaia has no qualms about mindwiping the memory of potentially millions of people (the Second Foundation members who were linked together probably knew about Gaia).
	home.comcast.net /~sparker9/hw/hw29.html (960 words)

	Take a BrainSip (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their main common points are Asimov's idea of a future Galactic Empire, certain aspects of technology—hyperdrive, blaster pistols, "neuronic whips"—and particular locations, such as the planet Trantor.
		Asimov later integrated them into his all-engulfing Foundation series.
		In reality, this is because Asimov wrote the original Robot and Foundation short stories as separate series, so that he could continue writing one if he (or his readers) tired of the other.
	isaac-asimovs-galactic-empire-series.brainsip.com.cob-web.org:8888 (221 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Foundation and Earth (Foundation): Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You almost get the feeling someone is behind asimov with a cattle prod trying to get as many words out him as possible for what is essentially a short story forced out into a novel.
		Nevertheless it is asimov and as such there is no predictability and while no two characters are really that different from one another there's a great intellectual weight behind the dialogue and narrative.
		Asimov remains the consummate story teller and while he came back to this series with a perspective and a perception he lacked in earlier novels, we have not so much a new direction as a logical development as we learn more of the over all nature of Isaac Asimov's galazy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Foundation-Earth-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0586071105 (1070 words)

	The Triple Triumph of the Moon - Isaac Asimov
		In the course of this chapter Asimov identifies, outlines and substantiates three quite startling potentialities associated with the presence of the moon...
		In all lands beneath the sun and moon, in all ages of the terrestrial evolution of mankind, these fundamental cosmic bodies - directly responsible for the manifestation of life - and the foundational faculties of life - have been reverred, praised and expounded upon, and their true natures sought.
		In more recent times, the early 1970's, Dr James Lovelock and Dr Lynn Margulis have put forward the Gaia Hypothesis which presents the earth as a living entity, a complex being consistent of a myriad of complexly interrelated ecosystems, a cosmic being in its own right.
	www.mountainman.com.au /i_asimov.html (4583 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Foundation's Fear
		However, Foundation's Fear is not an Asimov novel and Benford uses this opportunity to expand on themes and characters he used in his short story, "The Rose and the Scalpel," which appeared in the Robert Silverberg anthology, Time Gate (Baen Books, 1989).
		Asimov's earlier representation of Seldon does not mesh with the Galactic First Minister he is revealed to be.
		All of Asimov's descriptions of the study which was central to Seldon's life are vague, even in Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation when Seldon is working out the specific laws of psychohistory.
	www.sfsite.com /03b/foun29.htm (856 words)

	Amazon.ca: Foundation's Edge: the Foundation Novels: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But all the while, Asimov has been expanding and introducing many externals, principally robots and their story and making it coincide with the Foundation Series.
		Long before the current generation of cyberwriters started screaming mouthlessly and crashing snowily, Asimov was writing compelling tales of mechanical intelligence on the presumption that such technology was on _our_ side.
		Isaac Asimov has had a lot of time to reenergize himself into another Foundation novel and this one is one of his best.
	www.amazon.ca /Foundations-Edge-Foundation-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293389 (2255 words)

	Infinitesimal Foundation - Invision Power Board
		Given the Gaia solution taken by Trevize, we can safely say Prelude to Foundation and Forward Foundation are books that bring NOTHING (except entretainment of course) to the end of the Foundation/Robot series.
		Asimov is dead, therefor it is meaningless to speculate what "happened" after Foundation and Earth.
		The Asimov who wrote the "Foundation" series changed over the years as he grew both personally and as a writer.
	www.asimovians.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1846 (2696 words)

	Jim on the Web - Review of Asimov's Foundation and Earth
		In Foundation's Edge the Foundation's councillor Golan Trevize had taken a decision with far-reaching consequences for the future of mankind, and today he is not convinced he made the right decision.
		Still his friend Pelorat and Blits, acting both as Pelorat's partner and as Gaia's representative, accompany him as they see how important finding Earth is. The first stop, the planet Comporellon, is a disappointment despite what seemed like a solid clue, and they only just get out of there.
		And though the eras of both "series" are some 20,000 years apart Asimov manages to make the mix not even feel stretched, but very natural in stead.
	jim-on-the-web.com /en/timeoff/books/asimov-foundationandearth.html (550 words)

	Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
		Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes—the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family of millers.
		Gaia is one of Asimov's best attempts at exploring the possibility of a collective awareness, and is compounded further in Nemesis, in which the planet Erythro composed primarily of prokaryotic life has a mind of its own and seeks communion with human beings.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (7542 words)

	Amazon.com: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth: Books: J. E. Lovelock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Gaia hypothesis, first put forth in the mid-1960s, and published in book form in 1975, has had a radical effect on scientific views of evolution and the environment.
		According to the Gaia hypothesis, the environment does not coincidentally support life on earth; rather the two interact much the way a bird and its nest interact.
		Gaia exhibits a tendency to keep conditions (e.g., temperature, air quality) constant for all terrestrial life.
	www.amazon.com /Gaia-New-Look-Life-Earth/dp/0192860305 (2310 words)

	Invision Power Board > Gaia
		This is basically wht Gaia is. Also, Erythro is the closest planet to Earth and seems to match the history of Gaia as described in Foundations Edge.
		I think that with Gaia, Asimov tried to picture a world of people where everyone has the real and true definition of "good and morally right" (which is in fact little else than generally prefering to keep in mind the welfare of others even while struggling for your own benefits).
		Therefore, I come to the conclusion that Gaia was formulated on a sound sense of what is best for societies AND individuals, and that Trevize did have a strong intuition on the matter and made the best choice under the circumstances.
	www.asimovians.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t9-50.html (3013 words)

	DSL Projects
		In addition Gaia aims to make intelligent choice of peers that can provide required data based on load and network characteristics.
		Gaia was a world of islands and people of Gaia learnt that they could best survive by reading and influencing one another's mental activity and thus developing a Collective Consciousness.
		Gaia also relates to the theory that believes that Earth itself is a living process that is self-organizing in conjunction with other organisms surviving on the planet.
	www.cs.ucsb.edu /~dsl/gaia.html (232 words)

	Explorations In The Dynamics Of Consciousness - 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gaia is the term for the sum total of all life on this planet.
		The reason I bring it up now, however, is that it is a theory which directly links life with consciousness.
		One of the most interesting ways that I have discovered to explore those discoveries is Isaac Asimov's book, "Asimov's Guide to Science and Technology." In that book, as I've already mentioned, Isaac briefly outlines the lives of 1,510 scientists throughout history.
	members.aol.com /RevDeTurk/PTM_11_EDC_8.html (2402 words)

	TimeLine for the Robots & Foundations Universe
		However, Asimov has a special knack for gripping your attention and holding it for a long period of time.
		I think this is because all his novels are simple and straight forward; they tell a story instead of explaining the theories behind the technologies and/or ideas in the story.
		The Gaia overmind offers Golan Trevize ("the man who is always right") a choice between an Empire built by physical force, one rules by Second Foundation mentalics, or a galaxy-sized version of Gaia..
	www.sikander.org /foundation.php (1601 words)

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