Book 29: "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
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kittiwake". . . In the name of the Galactic Spirit, I so curse this ship."
And with his last word, at the stroke of midnight, a hand light-years distant in the Argolid Temple, opened an ultrawave relay, which at the instantaneous speed of the ultrawave, opened another on the flagship Wienis.
And the ship died!
For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.
I've been meaning to read the Foundation Trilogy for years, but somehow I never got round to it even though my parents owned several of the Foundation novels.
When psychohistorian Hari Seldon manoeuvres the emperor into setting up a foundation to create an encyclopedia on the uninhabited planet of Terminus on the edge of the Galactic Empire, he has an ulterior motive. This book covers the first century and a half of the foundation's existence, and the response of the Terminus government to the first three Seldon crises.
And with his last word, at the stroke of midnight, a hand light-years distant in the Argolid Temple, opened an ultrawave relay, which at the instantaneous speed of the ultrawave, opened another on the flagship Wienis.
And the ship died!
For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.
I've been meaning to read the Foundation Trilogy for years, but somehow I never got round to it even though my parents owned several of the Foundation novels.
When psychohistorian Hari Seldon manoeuvres the emperor into setting up a foundation to create an encyclopedia on the uninhabited planet of Terminus on the edge of the Galactic Empire, he has an ulterior motive. This book covers the first century and a half of the foundation's existence, and the response of the Terminus government to the first three Seldon crises.
