Foundation's Fear
FOUNDATION TRILOGY
Foundation’s Fear
GREGORY BENFORD
To Greg Bear and David Brin
fellow voyagers on strange seas
Rendezvous
R. Daneel Olivaw did not look like Eto Demerzel. That…
1 He had made enough enemies to acquire a nickname, Hari…
2 Walking through the Imperial Gardens, Hari wished Dors was with…
3 He woke with ideas buzzing in his head.
4 “We should leave soon,” Hari said, scribbling on his notepad.
5 He had another stim to calm himself. Somehow he was…
6 “Parties are supposed to cheer people up,” Yugo said, sliding…
7 The next day he got an education in the realities…
8 The woman from the Ministry of Interlocking Cultures looked down…
9 “The trip, it’ll be worth it just to get out…
10 Hari batted away all suggestions that they discontinue their journey.
Part 2: The Rose Meets the Scalpel
1 Joan of Arc wakened inside an amber dream. Cool breezes…
2 Marq Hofti strode swiftly toward his Waldon Shaft office, his…
3 “What’s going on here?” Voltaire rose, hands on hips—chair…
4 She tried to ignore the sorceress called Sybyl, who claimed…
5 When Marq strode into Splashes & Sniffs to meet his buddy…
6 Voltaire loomed—brows furrowed, scowling, hands on skinny hips. He…
7 Hari Seldon stared at the images and data-rivers. “Voltaire suffered…
8 “I have no desire to see the skinny gentleman in…
9 “It’s about time,” Voltaire scolded Madame la Scientiste. She hung…
10 The icon flashing on Marq’s board stopped just as he…
11 “Your orders,” said Garçon 213-ADM with a flourish.
12 Marq puffed the packet into his nose and waited for…
13 “Now pay attention,” Voltaire said when the scientist at last…
14 Sybyl waited nervously for her turn on the agenda of…
15 Unresponsive to the presence of Madame la Sorcière the Maid…
16 Voltaire cackled with satisfaction. The café appeared, popping into luminous…
17 Marq tuned Nim in on the interoffice screen. “Did it!
18 Sybyl sat anxiously beside Monsieur Boker in the Great Coliseum.
19 Voltaire
loved
audiences. And he had never appeared before one…
20 Far below in the rowdy crowd, Nim turned to Marq.
21 “
I
cheated?” Marq shouted to Sybyl. The coliseum crowd seethed.
22 “They’re…making love!” Marq exclaimed in the stands.
23 Sybyl gazed at Marq, her breath coming in quick little…
24 The president of Artifice Associates waved his hand as he…
Rendezvous
R. Daneel Olivaw allowed his face to express squint-eyed concern.
1 Hari Seldon’s desksec chimed and announced, “Margetta Moonrose desires a…
2 Not quite time for the Specials to arrive, Hari thought.
3 He entered their apartment and went straight to the kitchen.
4 He savored his work all the more, since he had…
5 He did not want to go to the Grand Imperial…
6 The Academic Potentate led him out with ritual words to…
7 Hari’s father had derisively referred to most public affairs as…
8 Yugo was waiting in his office the next morning. Face…
9 It is never easy to deal with criticism, especially when…
10 Dors got as far as the palace high vestibule. There…
11 Hari wobbled slightly as he left the Lyceum three hours…
12 A man came carefully into the refresher chamber. He wore…
1 Joan of Arc floated down the dim, rumbling tunnels of…
2 Voltaire snapped, “I’ve waited less long for Friedrich of Prussia…
3 Marq sat intently beneath his 3D holo, combing the trashy…
4 “What?!” Voltaire exclaimed as he snapped into the context-frame.
5 He had been neglecting his work. His lack of interactive…
6 Marq listened tensely as Mac 500’s neutral voice recounted the…
7 When the walls of her chamber began to melt and…
8 This was like a dream—but when had he ever…
9 She winked out of the sim-space, away from him confused.
Rendezvous
“If we stay in our apartment, don’t ever leave Streeling…
1 He didn’t fully relax until they were sitting on a…
2 “We’re certainly related, yes,” Expert Specialist Vaddo said. He was…
3 He spent mornings studying the pan data banks. The mathematician…
4 A good day. Plenty of fat grubs to eat in…
5 Hari shook his head to clear it. That helped a…
6 Hot day in the sun. Dust tickles. Makes me snort.
7 He stayed with it this time. After the first crisis…
8 “Pure animal love,” she said over dinner. “Refreshing.”
9 He had a glimmering of an idea about the pans…
10 “I don’t see it,” Dors said at Dinner.
11 At dinner he felt elated, exhausted, and not in the…
12 “When did you bail out?” Dors asked.
13 Vaddo invited him to try a combat-sport the station offered…
14 They spent one last day immersed in their pans, sunning…
15 The humans came swiftly, with clatters and booms.
16 They used pan modes of patrolling.
17 He had not counted on the river. Men, animals—these…
18 Walking was work and Ipan wasn’t having any.
19 Ipan needed food and rest—if only to stop his…
20 They moved on in spite of the blunt, deep unease…
21 The station crowned a rugged hill. Steep gullies gave the
3 Voltaire got her calmed down just in time. He labored…
Rendezvous
R. Daneel Olivaw was alarmed. “I have underestimated Lamurk’s power.”
Part 7: Stars Like Grains of Sand
1 The sky tumbled down. Hari Seldon reeled away from it.
2 If Buta Fyrnix had begun as a grain of sand…
3 In Hari’s studies he had discovered a curious little law.
4 In the men’s room, above the urinal he used, Hari…
5 A yellow-green sun greeted them. And soon enough, an Imperial…
6 “Vector aside for search,” came an automatic command from an…
7 It was dizzying—leaping about the entire galaxy, trapped in…
8 The Empire’s twenty-five million worlds supported an average of only…
Rendezvous
R. Daneel gazed at Dors without expression, letting his body…
1 Hari Seldon stood alone in the lift, thinking.
2 “We are trapped between tin deities and carbon angels,” Voltaire…
4 Joan of Arc found in herself both bravery and fear.
5 Cleon said, “The woman confessed readily. A professional assassin. I…
6 Voltaire shouted proudly, “I spent much of my career exiled…
8 Voltaire felt chilly fear slide through him like a knife.
9 Hari took a deep breath and prepared to enter sim-space…
10 “I need to see Daneel,” Hari insisted. He felt a…
11 Hari waited in the antechamber of the High Council. He…
12 On his way, he caught a comm-squirt.
13 He hovered in an
N
-dimensional space, far from politics.
14 Daneel said bleakly, “My agents, my brethren…all dead.”
15 Hari sat alone and stared at the holo of a…
16 The two figures from a past beyond antiquity flew in…
17 Hari sat back at his desk. First Minister, but on…
18 He and Dors watched the great luminous spiral turn beneath…