Literature

1.HARI SELDON… born in the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era; died 12,069. The dates are more commonly given in terms of the current Foundational Era as 79 to the…

SELDON, HARI-… it is customary to think of Hari Seldon only in connection with psychohistory, to see him only as mathematics and social change personified. There is no doubt that…

THALUS, EMMER-… A sergeant in the armed security forces of the Wye Sector of ancient Trantor…… Aside from these totally unremarkable vital statistics, nothing is known of the man except…

WYE-… A sector of the world-city of Trantor… In the latter centuries of the Galactic Empire, Wye was the strongest and stablest portion of the world-city. Its rulers had long…

RAYCH-… According to Hari Seldon, the original meeting with Raych was entirely accidental. He was simply a gutter urchin from whom Seldon had asked directions. But his life, from that…

DAVAN-… In the unsettled times marking the final centuries of the First Galactic Empire, the typical sources of unrest arose from the fact that political and military leaders jockeyed for…

DAHL-… Oddly enough, the best-known aspect of this sector is Billibotton, a semi-legendary place about which innumerable tales have grown up. In fact, a whole branch of literature now exists…

AMARYL, YUGO-… A mathematician who, next to Hari Seldon himself, may be considered most responsible for working out the details of psychohistory. It was he who…… Yet the conditions under…

ROBOT-… A term used in the ancient legends of several worlds for what are more usually called “automata.” Robots are described as generally human in shape and made of metal,…

AURORA-… A mythical world, supposedly inhabited in primordial times, during the dawn of interstellar travel. It is thought by some to he the perhaps equally mythical “world of origin” of…

HAND-ON-THIGH STORY-… An occasion cited by Hari Seldon as the first turning point in his search for a method to develop psychohistory. Unfortunately, his published writings give no indication as…

SUNMASTER FOURTEEN-… A leader of the Mycogen Sector of ancient Trantor…As is true of all the leaders of this ingrown sector, little is known of him. That he plays any…

MYCOGEN-… A sector of ancient Trantor buried in the past of its own legends. Mycogen made little impact on the planet. Self-satisfied and self-separated to a degree…Encyclopedia Galactica 31. When…

LEGGEN, JENARR-… His contributions to meteorology, however, although considerable, pale before what has ever since been known as the Leggen Controversy. That his actions helped to place Hari Seldon in…

TRANTOR-… It is almost never pictured as a world seen from space. It has long since captured the general mind of humanity as a world of the interior and the…

VENABILI, DORS-… Historian, born in Cinna… Her life might well have continued on its uneventful course were it not for the fact that, after she had spent two years on…

STREELING UNIVERSITY-… An institution of higher learning in the Streeling Sector of ancient Trantor… Despite all these claims to fame in the fields of the humanities and sciences alike, it…

TRANTOR-… The capital of the First Galactic Empire… Under Cleon I, it had its “twilight glow.” To all appearances, it was then at its peak. Its land surface of 200…

CLEON I-… The last Galactic Emperor of the Entun dynasty. He was born in the year 11,988 of the Galactic Era, the same year in which Hari Seldon was born….

32″Professor Seldon come in,” said Chief Librarian Tryma Acarnio in an icy tone of voice. Hari Seldon accompanied by Wanda and Palver, entered the Chief Librarian’s imposing office. “Thank you,…