Foundation and Earth (The Foundation Series: Sequels, Book 2)

by Isaac Asimov

equanimity.

ardour

eccentrics,

asperity,

apprehension.’

savannahs.

kraken

facsimile.

impertinent,

excreta

decadent,

contralto.

erect.

rigour

slipshod

frowned.

scowling.

beckoned

eschew,

ostentatious

punctiliously.

hegemony

duress.’

impudent

palate.

animus

fiscal

lynch

‘I can’t control the fact of temptation,

become unadventurous, unenterprising, slow to begin, quick to conclude, and, in general, unskilled.’

zest

hoarsely.

solemn

postcoitally.’

‘I do not wish to dive until I am sure there is water in the swimming pool, as the old saying has it.

body freezes in our cold, but kindly wind.’

lightness, ‘that Earth, too, will recognize the value

of my extraordinary rightness and will leave me

woebegone

quicksandish

aberrant

Things human beings don’t like and don’t want, such as thorns and thistles, may be needed to balance the ecology.’

If humanity disappears, and if its guiding hands are removed, the world’s pattern of life inevitably begins to fall apart. The planet un-terraforms itself.’

‘that if the planet is degenerating, we can be sure that the human beings are gone.’

Entire civilizations might be banished into forgetfulness.

isthmus.

rapped

frowning.

repugnance

languidly.