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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

1122.0. "Question about Robots and Empire" by CARROL::ARCH () Fri Dec 04 1992 17:32

can someone help me?  I know the 3 foundation/empire book titles, and the
4th in the series..."Robots and empire".

there's a book that has the guy finding the planet Gaia,

there's a book where the earth is destroyed though increasing the radioactivity
of the earth's crust.

then there's the 'connection' book where the guy who found Gaia is now looking
for something furhter, and he brings a girl to R. Daniel O.  I forget the
name of this book.

I'm a little confused about all the different books' names.  Can anyone help me?

thanks

Bruce

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1122.1NAPIER::WONGSun Dec 06 1992 21:3815
>>there's a book that has the guy finding the planet Gaia,

    	Foundation's Edge
    
>>there's a book where the earth is destroyed though increasing the radioactivity
>>of the earth's crust.

    	Robots And Earth
    
>>then there's the 'connection' book where the guy who found Gaia is now looking
>>for something furhter, and he brings a girl to R. Daniel O.  I forget the
>>name of this book.

    	Foundation and Earth
    
1122.2SHIPS::RIOT01::SUMMERFIELDBorn of FrustrationWed Dec 16 1992 07:3722
re .1,

I think the one about the Earth's crust becoming radioactive is called Robots and Empire,
not Robots and Earth.

I guess the sequence (in internal chronology) is:

Assorted robot short stories
Caves of Steel
Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
Prelude to Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth

Anyone care to fill in the gaps.

Clive
1122.3DECWIN::FISHERI *hate* questionnaires--WorfWed Dec 16 1992 13:005
Was in this conference looking for something else, but saw this note.  "Pebble in
the Sand" is in there too between Robots and Empire and Prelude, I think.  This
has some stuff about the early empire, if I remember right.

Burns
1122.4"Pebble in the Sky" and "Currents of Space"TWOLLY::WAJENBERGSuperficially normal.Wed Dec 16 1992 15:519
    I think the title was "Pebble in the Sky," and is set during the heyday
    of the first empire, when it ruled the whole galaxy.  The main
    character was an elderly man from the 20th century, thrown into the far
    future by a freak accident at a nuclear reactor.
    
    There is also "The Currents of Space" (I think the title was), set
    before the empire contained the whole galaxy.
    
    Earl Wajenberg
1122.5KERNEL::JACKSONPeter Jackson - UK CSC TP/IMThu Dec 17 1992 07:406
    As I remember it "Pebble in the Sky" comes before "The Currents of Space".
    
    There are also references to End of Eternity in one of the later books,
    however it does not really fit with the others.
    
    Peter
1122.6REGENT::BROOMHEADDon't panic -- yet.Mon Jan 04 1993 10:286
    Of course it doesn't!  It's about the playing around with Time that
    eventually produces that highly-unlikely universe.  (Presumably,
    after the end of the book, someone made a mistake, and their tweaking
    made them impossible.)
    
    						Ann B.