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Foundation and Earth: Looking Back at Asimov

Science fiction writers often create mythical futures and place us as we are today in them so we can see more clearly the truth of what we are. In The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin describes the earth as having been ruined by human greed and wars so that those remaining created totalitarian controls to carefully manage and protect what was left of mankind and other life. Given the future we face it is a…