Foundation and Chaos

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern SF, and the sheer sweep of his "future history" shaped many if not most of the writers who followed him. With the permission-and blessing-of the Asimov estate, three of today's bestselling SF writers, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and Dávid Brin, have conspired (like the originál Foundation!) to complete the epic saga the beloved Grand Master left unfinished. The acclaimed Second Foundation Trilogy continues with Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos, the gripping new növel about a galaxy-wide power struggle within the ranks of the robots that have served and rotected humankind for twenty centuries. Hari Seldon, frail and full of years, is on trial for daring to predict the Empire's fali, and the time has come for the longanticipated migration to Star's End. But R. Daneel Olivaw, the brilliant robot entrusted with this great mission, has discovered a... Tovább

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern SF, and the sheer sweep of his "future history" shaped many if not most of the writers who followed him. With the permission-and blessing-of the Asimov estate, three of today's bestselling SF writers, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and Dávid Brin, have conspired (like the originál Foundation!) to complete the epic saga the beloved Grand Master left unfinished. The acclaimed Second Foundation Trilogy continues with Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos, the gripping new növel about a galaxy-wide power struggle within the ranks of the robots that have served and rotected humankind for twenty centuries. Hari Seldon, frail and full of years, is on trial for daring to predict the Empire's fali, and the time has come for the longanticipated migration to Star's End. But R. Daneel Olivaw, the brilliant robot entrusted with this great mission, has discovered a potential enemy, even deadlier than the figurehead Emperor's brutal minions. One of his own. Humaniform robot Lodovik Trema is the only survivor of a bizarre interstellar accident. Exposed to a neutrino storm, his positronic brain has apparently erased the holographic template of the Three Laws of Robotics. If this is true, Lodovic's service to humankind is no longer a question of destiny, but of will, and therefore, no longer absolute.
Danccl needs Lodovic, so hc sends him to Eos, the legeridary sccret planet where the robots perfect thcir service to humankind. And Lodovic says he is healed. Yet, can hc be trusted, when stirrings of discontent are arising all over the galaxy? Other robots are questioning their mission-and Daneel's strategy. And humans, too. Hidden in the steel caves of Trantor, sought by loyalist and rebel alike, is the daughter of an obscure heatsink worker, whose amazing mentalic powers are alsó the result of disaster: the deadly humán malady known as Brain Fever. Young Klia Asgar's awesome but unwanted psychic abilities promise to jóin man and robot in a common destiny...or a mutual destruction. Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, the first növel of this bold new series, füled in the rich detail of Hari Seldon's past. Foundation and Chaos, the second, goes far further: bearing dramatic witness to the terror and splendor of the Empire's fali...and Foundation's rise. Here is science fiction on the grand scale, as only Isaac Asimov, and those entrusted to continue his vision, could imagine and bring to life. Vissza