I haven't read enough Asimov to know if there is a certain answer though and maybe there is none. You can tell it innately did not consider herself to be the same when they talked about the planet of forebears and she said 'both of them?' Golan looking at Fallom in such a suspicious way might just be him suspecting that she, although descended from humans, is too different now to see itself as one. Such power would be enough to take control of the human galaxy easily given that Daneel could have done so bloodily but easily if the laws of robotics didn't restrict him. If they were powerful enough to avoid detection in any way by Daneel and in fact were able to trick him in to believing they were altered humans then their power would need to be very great indeed. :(īut surely Daneel watched the settlement of Solaria closely so it must be concluded that the Solarians could not be non humans from a different galaxy that have come with the purpose of conquest at least. So, there is no continuation, no sequel, no idea of what happened next. (Also, it was getting too hard to keep writing sequels to an ever-more complicated series.)Īnd, while he was thinking of what to do next. He just couldn't think of where to go next. There's precedent for this: this is exactly why he stopped writing Foundation stories back in 1950. He kept putting off writing another sequel because he just could not think of where to go next. Then he wrote another prequel ('Forward the Foundation'). So, when his publishers asked him for yet another Foundation book, he decided to write a prequel instead ('Prelude to Foundation').

Isaac Asimov didn't know how to proceed from the end of 'Foundation and Earth'. It looks like Foundation and Earth is the final novel set in the foundation universe So, Fallom is one of those 'non-human intelligences' that psychohistory can't account for, even though it's descended from humans.

However, Fallom is a home-grown alien it doesn't come from another galaxy, it comes from Earth (via our own colonist descendants).īut, a hermaphroditic, transducing person is going to think and feel and react differently to two-gendered non-transducing humans. Does that make it alien.? For the purposes of psychohistory, yes, it does.

Fallom is one of us, just genetically engineered to be a hermaphrodite. Fallom is descended from Bander who was descended from other hermaphroditic Solarians, who were descended from two-gendered Solarians, who were descended from Earthpeople. It's hinted pretty strongly at that Fallom may be an alienĭepends how you define 'alien'.

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