This story is followed by Greg Bear's Foundation And Chaos. While avoiding Lamurk and his minions, Hari and Dors spend time in the bodies of chimpanzees. This particular section borrows heavily from Benford's Short Story ' Immersion'. The name is short for 'Pan troglodytes', the meaning of which has been forgotten. The planet is named after the 'Pans', creatures imported from Earth. They drive a large fraction of the plot, and become deeply enmeshed with the tiktok riots and in resolving the conflict against aliens.ĭuring 'Panucopia', Seldon and Venabili hide from their enemies on the titular planet. Yugo's sims are of two historical figures Joan of Arc and Voltaire, reprising their role from Benford's novella, ' The Rose And The Scalpel' (part of the Time Gate anthologies). Despite trying to hold this at a distance, Seldon gets caught up in the politics of the computer simulations, the tiktok men, and the prehistoric laws against creating Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile, Yugo Amaryl has purchased a couple of 'sims', simulations of human beings, which he and Seldon can use to test their psychohistorical theories on.

Seldon will have to wade through a political morassess while the Dhalite ethnic group is struggling to make itself heard in the court of politics. This Science Fiction story is an Interquel, continuing immediately after Forward the Foundation's 'Eto Demerzel'.Įmperor Cleon wants Seldon to be his First Minister, but is opposed by Betan Lamurk and his factions. Gregory Benford's 1997 Novel, the first in The Second Foundation Trilogy.

Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford