We’re diving into Foundation and Earth with Chapters 1 through 3.
“You Cannot Have a Reasonable Civilization Without Podcasts of Some Kind”
The story so far:
When last we checked in, Golan Trevize had deduced that the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Interregnum, and Everything was “Galaxia” and not “The Seldon Plan” or “42” as we had previously been led to believe.
But still, he has his doubts. Like a proper mathematics student, he’s uncomfortable unless he can show his work. And so, he and his two ape-descended companions, Pelorat and Bliss, have begun a quest to find out what the actual question was.
Thus, they search for Earth, the biggest, most powerful computer ever built, even bigger than the Milliard Gargantubrain at Maximegalon. They will find it, learn the actual question, and all will be right with the galaxy. Unless the telephone sanitizers have anything to say about it.
Or something like that. Join us for Chapters 1 through 3 of Foundation and Earth, “The Search Begins,” Toward Comporellon” and “At The Entry Station.” We’ll be sure to get it sorted.
Stars End: A Foundation Podcast 
Ever since I read the entire series from Caves of Steel to Foundation & Earth, I have come to a conclusion that Galaxia was created/started by Gladia, lover of Elijah Baley and close friend of R. Daneel Olivaw (aka Demerzel). Am I crazy?
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Thanks for the reference to “Our Angry Earth”. Had not heard of it & will get interlibrary loan to cough up a copy As I mentioned earlier the “Gaia” here is more like panpsychism than Lovelock & Margulis’ ideas. I flipped thru a couple of his autobiographies but he doesn’t say anything about this idea (or even, much about this book). Maybe this book will have more insight.
One striking thing is that Asimov seems to be abandoning the foundation / Seldon scheme –
there’s a flaw. Maybe Trevise is another wild card, like Mule – the Gaians seem to think there’s something special about him.
Tangentially, I learned about global warming from one of his F&SF articles. It had to be a really early one, but I read it in a collection of those published in the mid-60’s. I remember he was concerned more heating meant more evaporation which meant more snow that might tip us back into the ice age.
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