JWHITE%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (07/23/85)
From: JWHITE%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Jim White) Please advise if I have done thing's appropriately, to get this memo to you for inclusion into SF-LOVERS. Thanx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Responding to John at Topaz, no I really didn't notice that the Gaian girl, Bliss (wasn't that her name), was like the one in The End of Eternity. It has however been quite a while the I read EOE. I do note that Isaac is trying to many of his novels together into a sort of 'Foundation Universe' to use his own words. Similar in a way to Larry Niven's Known Space. I think however that he is stretching to some degree. Certainly 'Pebble in the Sky' and ' The Stars Like Dust' do deal with the Galactic Empire, and Earth's penchant for radioactivity. One can see some justification for his tying the robot novels into it also, but it is reaching. In the end, I'm sure he'll pull everything together. Gaia will probably be explained away as a race of mutated robots, formed out of a less than casual encounter between Giskard, (the mind reading robot from 'The Robots of Dawn', the latest in female humaniform robots from some time on Aurora's future, (future as of time of Robots of Dawn). Gaia may even be Aurora, or one of the other Spacer worlds. After stagnating for another few thousand years, the populations of those robot dependent worlds just die off, leaving a hardier earth population to expand. Meanwhile the robots, thus isolated, begin evolving on their own, and driven by the 1st Law once again interject themselves back into humanity's future. In any event, it's fun to speculate, and I'm waiting anxiiously for the next Foundation Book. also Even seeing Back to the Future after reading your note about the movies obscure reference to Sherman and Mr. Peabody, I was unable to catch the reference to Sherman. I never heard anyone on the Peabody farm call Sherman. Was the reference on the Credits?