Fundação: O Caos (Colecção Nébula #76)

A monumental saga da Fundação de Isaac Asimov prossegue agora com a «Trilogia da Segunda Fundação», cujo segundo volume é "Fundação: O Caos" (1998) '-' Hari Seldon, envelhecido e fragilizado, e R. Daneel Olivaw vêm-se a braços com uma dura missão: enfrentar o humaniforme robot Lodowik Trema, de cujo cérebro positrónico foram apagadas as Três Leis da Robótica...

«Excitante e bem escrito.» — Publishers Weekly
«Traz à superfície as complexidades de um Império Galáctico que Asimov nunca preencheu.» — Denver Post

The Foundation Saga Continues... Read Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, the first novel in this bold new series and Secret Foundation's Triumph, the concluding volume from David Brin.

Greg Bear focuses on the nearly immortal robots that serve the Foundation, including R. Daneel Olivaw, who is set to guide one of the Foundation's first great undertakings. But Olivaw runs into trouble from an unexpected quarter, his best operative, Lodovik Trema, whose positronic brain has been irrevocably altered in a strange accident that has given him freedom from the supposedly immutable laws of robotics. Now, other robots are beginning to question their mission--and Daneel's strategy...

[Wikipedia] Foundation and Chaos (1998) is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe. It is the second book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.

Preceded by: Forward the Foundation
Followed by: Foundation's Triumph

The novel is the second part of The Second Foundation Trilogy and takes place almost entirely in the same time frame as "The Psychohistorians," which is the first part of the novel Foundation. In addition to telling a more expanded version of Hari Seldon's confrontation with the Commission of Public Safety it also interweaves R. Daneel Olivaw's struggle against a sect of robots who oppose his plans for Humanity!

While covering the same period as in Asimov’s “The Psychohistorians,” Foundation and Chaos focuses more on paternal superrobot R. Daneel Olivaw than on Hari Seldon. Olivaw’s 20 millennia of machinations and contrivances are questioned by “Calvinian” robots who do not observe R. Giskard / Olivaw’s Zeroth Law (“No robot may harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”) developed in Asimov’s Robots and Empire. Olivaw’s actions dampen human intellectual growth and variation until the human species matures. The novel’s primary issue is whether Olivaw’s ends justify his means.

Does the ancient Auroran robot really serve Humanity’s greater good? Should Olivaw decide this for himself?!

Foundation and Chaos portrays the rise of mentalics (telepaths who can influence other’s thoughts) such as Wanda Seldon and Stettin Palver, who will form the Second Foundation. Twisted rogue mentalic Vara Liso even foreshadows the mutant Magnifico’s spectacular rise 310 years later. Powerful Public Safety Commissioner Linge Chen again plays a prominent role as the true Imperial power behind fatuous playboy Emperor Klayus. Reconstructed superrobot Dors Venabili reappears as well.

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