Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

by Isaac Asimov

desuetude

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“I will never understand people.” “There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves. How would Seldon have worked out his Plan—and I don’t care how subtle his mathematics was—if he didn’t understand people; and how could he have done that if people weren’t easy to understand? You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself—no offense intended.”

‘The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.’ ”

but there’s always social inertia to everything—even technological advance.

celerity.

The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space take place in the years when Trantor was expanding toward Empire,

Pebble in the Sky take place when the First Galactic Empire was at the height of its power.

The Complete Robot, while the two novels, The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, describe the robotic period of the colonization of the Galaxy.

you wish an account of the Eternals and the way in which they adjusted human history, you will find it (not entirely consistent with the references in this new book) in The End of Eternity.

Pebble in the Sky and The End of Eternity are included in the omnibus volume The Far Ends of Time and Earth,

The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space are in the omnibus volume Prisoners of the Stars.

The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, they are included in the omnibus vo...