Virgil Finlay “Foundation Trilogy” pencil preliminaries

TRANTOR-a world of metal! This completely mechanized planet was the center of the Galactic Empire, the kernel of the human race, the stainless-steel symbol of man's final, utter conquest over his environment.

“In the 1960's, Finlay did a series of six illustrations for Asimov's classic series ‘Foundation’ which were used on an advertising brochure for the Science Fiction Book Club's collection of the series.”

The stereo-projected image of HARI SEL-DON, the master psycho-historian who established the Foundation, appears before the governors on the eve of the first major crisis.

ATOMIC "JEWELRY" - a mantle of splendor for any woman who wore the special device of polished metal links. With gadgets like this, the Merchant Princes expanded the Foundation's economic influence.

THE LENS -a complex calculator which projects a reproduction of the heavens as seen from any given point within the Galaxy! This remarkable instrument was the space pilot's compass -vital to hyperspace travel.

THE VISI-SONOR - a "musical" instrument which, when played upon, could actually stimulate the listener's mind directly! Its radiations produced sensual delights unlike any others in experience... they could even kill!

GALACTIC WAR! -The sleek vessels of the Foundation's atomic fleet meet in space combat with the larger, less maneuverable Empire ships, to determine who will ultimately control the Galaxy!

The original brochure

Bonus points to whoever finds the finished art of any of these.

EDIT: found two. The Lens and Galactic War

I’m low key convinced Lucky Starr and Bigman had a thing for each other. I mean, that bromance is strong as hell.

"Your species have certain tendencies my people never had. From your mind I can see easily that there are tendencies against the welfare of the whole."

[David replied,] "If you speak of such things as crime and war, then see in my mind that the vast majority of humans fights the anti-social tendencies and that though our progress against them is slow, it is certain."

From David Starr, Space Ranger (1952) by Isaac Asimov, writing as Paul French

Were boldly going before it had become a trend

The End of Eternity "Timeline"

I've compiled a list of events associated with each Century in Asimov's Eternity. I tried to be as thorough as possible, but I may have missed something; please let me know. Spoiler alert for the best story ever imagined about time travel, a novel which turns 70 this year:

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(Cover art by @twigoffir)

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The caves of steel illustrations from it's original run in Galaxy science fiction magazine

Part 1 of 3 October 1953

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1953-10/page/n3/mode/2up

"He never created a finished product. Finished products are for decadent minds."

Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation

was anyone going to talk about tragic ex-besties Lucky and Evans or just me

Bonus

Tim White - Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov, 1988)

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Uh why is Daneel telling Hari that Giskard invented and named the Zeroth Law? Is this another of Asimov's moments of completely ignoring important plot points from his previous books? It's so annoying, I thought we were past this

This is such an insult to Daneel's character and the Robot series, did this fucker not read Robots & Empire?? It was no effort for Daneel to keep his memories of Elijah and he was very worried about losing them. These authors keep butchering Asimov's characters, especially Daneel, I'm so pissed off.