Welcome to our season 5 premiere in which we talk about the first four chapters of Foundation’s Edge!
“At Odd and Unpredictable Times We Cling in Fright to the Podcast”
Hello, True Believer! We’re back! Again. And we’re ready to dive into season five!
You might recall the beginning of Season 3 when we made a pronouncement like this one. “On the Stars End Podcast, Foundation canon is represented by two separate, yet equally important kinds of seasons” the odd-numbered seasons, which discuss Asimov’s writings, and the even-numbered seasons that talk about the Apple TV+ series.”
That’s been working for us so far, and we have no plans to stop now! And here we are in an odd-numbered season so, we’re starting with the first sequel, Foundation’s Edge, specifically the first four chapters, “Councilman,” “Mayor,” “Historian,” and “Space.” That’s the starting point. We’ll continue in four-chapter chunks through the entire novel. You can probably guess where we’ll go from there, but we promise there will be some treats and surprises along the way.
So join us as we enter the second interregnum between seasons 2 and 3 of the Apple TV+ series. We’ll make sure that this one won’t seem like 30,000 years either!
Stars End: A Foundation Podcast 
I was happy to see someone draw a parallel between Thatcher and Branno, but you didn’t recognize just how influential the Iron Lady was to the characterization of Branno the Bronze. It’s safe to say the if there were no Thatcher there would probably be no Branno.
When you account for Thatcher’s complete lack of (public) femininity and her then exclusive standing as a female PM it makes Asimov’s comments in those regards far more reasonable than was implied in the podcast. Since the book was published there has been only one other female PM and, post Boris Johnson, a female living footnote.
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Branno the Bronze – Asimov seems to have melted down Salvor Hardin and recast … I wonder if she reappears later in this book
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