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If Trantor is therefore replaced by Earth in a possible Foundation movie, there won't be any logical openings for sequels as well as confusion in the actual novels 'plots.
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Trantor, unlike the green-screened Coruscant, is a material place, populated by living bodies with living needs.
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Daily, fleets of ships in the tens of thousands brought the produce of twenty agricultural worlds to the dinner tables of Trantor ....
‘Science Fiction and Ecological Futurity’ « Gerry Canavan 2009
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Trantor, unlike the green-screened Coruscant, is a material place, populated by living bodies with living needs.
‘Science Fiction and Ecological Futurity’ « Gerry Canavan 2009
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All that said, I'll posit an exception: if the cities across a planet merge into a single worldwide megalopolis like Trantor (humans) or Hearth (Puppeteers), in the face, presumably, of enormous population pressures.
MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building 2009
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Daily, fleets of ships in the tens of thousands brought the produce of twenty agricultural worlds to the dinner tables of Trantor ....
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Its dependence upon the outer worlds for food and, indeed, for all necessities of life, made Trantor increasingly vulnerable to conquest by siege.
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Its dependence upon the outer worlds for food and, indeed, for all necessities of life, made Trantor increasingly vulnerable to conquest by siege.
‘Science Fiction and Ecological Futurity’ « Gerry Canavan 2009
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It begins by introducing us to Gaal Dornick who, with his newly minted doctorate degree in mathematics, is making his first inter-planetary trip to Trantor, the seat of the Galactic Empire.
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(Note also how the book sends up SF classics like Starship Troopers, the planet Trantor in Foundation, and countless other SF clich@eacute; s.)
MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? 2008
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