num_pages: 356
description: Isaac Asimov. Foundation and Earth. Garden City: Doubleday &amp; Company, 1986. First edition. Octavo. 356 pages.The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.
language: English
title: Foundation and Earth
titlecomplete: Foundation and Earth (Foundation #5)
characters: Golan Trevize, Blissenobiarella, Janov Pelorat
genres: Classics, Space, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 69986
series: Foundation (Publication Order), Foundation (Chronological Order), Greater Foundation Universe
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Doubleday