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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2012-10-07 12:21 am

If Foundation's Galactic Empire was more like the Roman Empire

It would account for between a sixth and a quarter of the human population of the Milky Way and something like one in thirty of stars of the Milky Way, if I have not bolloxed up this quick back of the envelope calculation.

[identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com 2012-10-07 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Asimov said that he based the Mule on Timur, with Foundation playing the role of the Ottomans.