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The Foundation Trilogy (BBC Radio)
Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy adapted in eight hour-long episodes by the BBC, first broadcast in 1973, and repeated in 1977 and 2002.
1 Episodes
1.1 Psychohistory and Encyclopedia
1.2 The Mayors
1.3 The Merchant Princes
1.4 The General
1.5 The Mule
1.6 Flight From The Mule
1.7 The Mule Finds
1.8 Star's End
2 Changes From The Written Trilogy
3 Principal Cast
4 External links
5 References
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"They came from an alien time continuum with the sole intention of subjugating the Lensmen and ruling the entire galaxy and everything in it. But the Lensmen had no intention of letting that happen. Voted one of the two best science fiction series of all time, coming in behind only Asimov's Foundation series.
Collected together in one binding for the very first time are all six Lensman novels and the final book of Lensman short stories for 7 complete...
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Ten thrilling and intriguing tales of space travel, war, and alien encounters from multiple Hugo Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction Clifford D. Simak. From Frank Herbert's Dune to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to Philip K. Dick's stories of bizarre visions of a dystopian future, the latter half of the twentieth century produced some of the finest examples of speculative fiction ever published. Yet no science fiction author was more...
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Second foundation trilogy volume 1
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing -- of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues.
Fate -- and a cruel Emperor's arbitrary power -- have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership...
5) Galaxia
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Galaxia begins conceptually where Isaac Asimovs Foundation series ends. (Will we have time to form Galaxia?) Confronted with the task of expanding the last garden on a future war-ravaged Earth, Kreon and his tribe receive assistance in the form of silent, underground allies: the mycelial (mushroom) kingdom. They soon discover these organisms are more than simply catalysts of plant-life, but also trans-galactic portals of intelligence. Composed with...
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Second foundation trilogy volume 3
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished.
The Second...
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The author of the Cities in Flight saga explores the conflicting demands of science, faith, and human feeling in this Hugo Award–winning novel. Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn't feel any genuine conflicts in his belief system-until he is sent to Lithia. The reptilian inhabitants of this distant world appear to be admirable in every way. Untroubled...
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Trained by the Galactic Council's very own schools for travelling in deep space. That's where skill sets needed to captain a starship are best taught. Although it's been quite some time since Koran's taken a direct GC task. Nowadays, they've been working wild specialty jobs. All for an underground network, ran by a Gorbulon who's referred to as the Contractor.
Kor's been back on Danar V for a full standard week. Where his friends and favourite intergalactic...
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What most people need to understand is that the Holy Land was in military occupation by the Romans during Christ's time. Not far from where he grew up had been a town of about 10,000 inhabitants that threw out the tax collectors, much like what happened in Falujah. The Romans responded by sending in the legion and killing every mature man, not just those that hurt the tax collectors. They then sold all women and children into slavery.
So, it was his...
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