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Re: next year
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Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:13:37 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Alex Marino writes:
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> > Trantor was the name of the totally urbanized planet in Foundation. Trantor • was
> > also capital of the Galactic Empire, another concept found in Star Wars.
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> No, sorry, the capital of the Galactic Empire was Coruscant.
Trantor was the capital of the Galactic Empire in the Foundation series, not
Star Wars. I should have been more clear. I was trying to say that the concept
of a Galactic Empire is something common to both Foundation and SW. I doubt
that Asimov was the first SF writer to use a Galactic Empire; actually, he says
that the whole concept of the Foundation series was inspired by Gibbon's
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.
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| On galactic empires generally, E.E. "Doc" Smith is often mentioned as the guy who took sf out of the solar system. Try to imagine a more provincial time, before anyone had yet launched a rocket, when an IBM typewriter was cutting edge technology, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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