Join the conversation as we discuss Foundation and Earth chapters 10, 11, and 12 which is to say, the entirety of Part IV: Solaria.
“There Are Old Legends of Life After Podcasting.”
I began our description of S3E18, with “You know what? Solaria is weird.”
And here we are again on Solaria. It’s been twelve millennia and in the meantime, they’ve really leaned into the weirdness. The Solarians have been busy genetically engineering themselves into the quintessential Spacers. They’ve gone so far as to grow their own Tesla coils inside their own brains so that they can wirelessly power their robots. And that isn’t all! But don’t take my word for it! Read “Robots,” “Underground,” and “To the Surface” and see for yourself! Then join us here for the episode!
On another note, our first episode dropped on 26 April 2021. Thus, this episode marks the third anniversary of our podcast! To mark the occasion, here are two mug shots of Joseph’s cat Lavender at age 4 weeks and 108 weeks. These were taken right around our first and third anniversaries.
Thanks to everybody who has come along for the ride!
Stars End: A Foundation Podcast 
Did you guys see the cast listing for Season 3? BTW, it’s Bayta Mallow rather than Daryl (sp?)
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Richard Wolinksy of KPFA radio has been digitizing & podcast-feeding the audio tapes of their 45+ years author interviews, and one is of Isaac Asimov from around 1983. In it he discusses his new autobiography and a couple of books recently read-thru on this podcast series, “Robots of Dawn” and “Foundations Edge” which were just out.
https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/RW-Isaac-Asimov.mp3
About this section of the book – I had the realization here that Asimov was probably exploring the evolutionary ideas of Stephen J Gould – punctuated equilibrium and the reproductive isolation of most of the places they are visiting. There’re 2 unexploited opportunities (maybe) here – one is clearer after the next 3 chapter block/book conclusion but one is clear now – the Solarians exist in a parasitic symbiosis with their robots – they are actually a lot like “queens” in bee hives and ant societies, and it’s the robots who have parasitized this new human species. The transition is not complete but it’s clear where it ‘s going and I wonder exactly how it got started - we are missing that part of their story.
At this point we are far away from Foundation and the Seldon plan – this is at least one and maybe 2 alien species … and so is Gaia … and it ‘s starting to become clear that Gaia is not exactly benevolent but an imperialist force of its own.
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where are u!!!?? Im dying of boredom!!
come back!
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Thanks for checking in!
We can’t let anyone die of boredom! We’re clearing up our backlog and we’ll have an episode for you this weekend!
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