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Originally Posted by Phaust  because in this book appears the ideea of a galaxy populated only by humans...this is why in the foundation books you dont get any alien...i can't remember in which book of the foundation series is mentioned of the "eternals"...and their decision...but i know it's brief and an inexperienced reader could misse it
*pardon my spelling and also any mistakes in the terminology but i have read the books in my language: romanian  |
No need for apologies, by any means. Yes, he did mention the Eternals in one of the later volumes -- I'm not absolutely certain about this, but I believe it was
Prelude to Foundation or
Forward the Foundation. (It's been some time since I last read the set, and unfortunately they're in storage halfway across the city, so I can't refer to them; but he also mentions in a preface how he's tying the earlier novel into his Robot/Empire/Foundation series.)
However, on the idea of a galaxy only populated by humans... this was something that entered Asimov's stories early on, for various reasons he discusses in
The Early Asimov. Incidentally, there is a tale that belongs (more or less) to the Galactic Empire phase of the series that goes against that model: "Blind Alley", which is included in
The Early Asimov, as well as a couple of other collections, iirc. It was, though, in
The End of Eternity that he gave the rationale within the series for this being the case, if memory serves....