![]() ![]() Seldon seems unaware of Olivaw’s role in perpetuating brain fever and other dampeners. Does the ancient Auroran robot really serve humanity’s greater good? Should Olivaw decide this for himself? The novel’s primary issue is whether Olivaw’s ends justify his means. ![]() ![]() Olivaw’s actions dampen human intellectual growth and variation until the human species matures. Olivaw’s 20 millennia of machinations and contrivances are questioned by “Calvinian” robots who do not observe Olivaw’s Zeroth Law (“No robot may harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”) developed in Asimov’s Robots and Empire. While covering the same period as in Asimov’s "The Psychohistorians", Foundation and Chaos focuses more on paternal super-robot R. Daneel Olivaw's struggle against a sect of robots who oppose his plans for humanity. In addition to telling a more expanded version of Hari Seldon's confrontation with the Commission of Public Safety it also interweaves R. The novel is the second part of the Second Foundation Trilogy and takes place almost entirely in the same time frame as "The Psychohistorians", which is the first part of the novel Foundation. It is the second book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate. Foundation and Chaos (1998) is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe. ![]()
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