In Isaac Asimov's Foundation/Empire/Robot series, the Spacers were the first humans to emigrate to space. About a millennium thereafter, they severed political ties with Earth, and embraced low population growth as a means for a high standard of living, in combination with using large numbers of robots as servants. At the same time, they also became militarily dominant over Earth. Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Galactic Empire Series contains Isaac Asimovs three earliest novels and one short story: The Stars, Like Dust (1951) The Currents of Space (1952) Pebble in the Sky (1950), his first novel Blind Alley (1945), short story reprinted in The Early Asimov They are only loosely connected. ... Isaac Asimovs Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... A millennium is a period of time, equal to one thousand years (from Latin mille, thousand, and annum, year). ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... The Standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way these services and goods are distributed within a population. ... ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ...

Asimov's novels chronicle the gradual deterioration of the Spacer worlds and the disappearance of robots from human society. The exact details vary from book to book, and in at least one case—the radioactive contamination of Earth—later scientific discoveries forced Asimov to retcon his own future history. The general pattern, however, is as follows: This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In the vague period between Asimov's near-future robot stories (of the type collected in I, Robot) and his Robot novels, emigrants from Earth establish colonies on fifty worlds, the first being Aurora, the last Solaria, and the Hall of the Worlds located on Melpomenia, the nineteenth. Sociological forces possibly related to their sparse populations and dependence on robot labor lead to the collapse of most of these worlds; their dominance is replaced by new, upstart colonies known as "Settler" worlds. Unlike their Spacer predecessors, the Settlers detested robots, and so by the time of the Empire novels robotics is almost an unknown science. I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950. ... Aurora is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimovs Robot Series. ... Solaria was a fictional human-inhabited planet in Isaac Asimovs Foundation and Robot series. ... This is a list of minor planets in Isaac Asimovs Foundation, Robot, and Empire series. ... The Galactic Empire Series contains Isaac Asimovs three earliest novels and one short story: The Stars, Like Dust (1951) The Currents of Space (1952) Pebble in the Sky (1950), his first novel Blind Alley (1945), short story reprinted in The Early Asimov They are only loosely connected. ...

Roger MacBride Allen's Caliban trilogy portrays several years in the history of Inferno, a planet where Spacers recruit Settlers to rebuild the collapsing ecology. Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is a US science fiction author. ... Isaac Asimovs Caliban (1993) is a science fiction novel by Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimovs Robots/Empire/Foundation universe. ...

In Foundation and Earth, Golan Trevize visits several of these worlds. We learn the eventual fate of Aurora (The Robots of Dawn) and also Solaria, the setting of the earlier novel The Naked Sun. Foundation and Earth Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronologically the last in the series. ... Golan Trevize is a fictional character, a major figure in two books in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series: Foundations Edge and Foundation and Earth. ... Aurora is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimovs Robot Series. ... The Robots of Dawn is a whodunit science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983. ... Solaria was a fictional human-inhabited planet in Isaac Asimovs Foundation and Robot series. ... The Naked Sun is the second novel in Isaac Asimovs Robot series. ...

Wider connections

Asimov's novel Nemesis hints that the Spacers may have been descendants of human beings selected by a non-human intelligence for their mental characteristics. However, except for a brief mention in Forward the Foundation, the Nemesis plotline is entirely unlinked with the rest of Asimov's science-fiction canon. (The internal logic of the Robot-Empire-Foundation saga demands that robots be present on Earth prior to the Spacer worlds' colonization, yet Nemesis contains no robots, making the continuity difficult to accept.) Nemesis is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov. ... Forward the Foundation Forward the Foundation is a novel written by Isaac Asimov. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. ...

Another possible source of the Spacers as a people may involve a number of previously unpublished stories first seen in Asmov's collection Gold, beginning with the story The Nation in Space, where 50 space stations, each launched and placed in orbit to preserve the culture of the United States as individual states societies in Orbit. The events of Nemesis would ultimately see all 50 stations eventually leaving Earth, and establish the 50 Spacer worlds.

Further, another story within the story arc establishes the Spacer's mastery of micro-food, which they then retain all through history up to thir inclusion in the Imperium on Trantor in the sector of Mycogen. The Spacers control of micro-food makes the farming operations of Solaria seem more puzzling, until we remembr that Solaria was aberrant even by Spacer standards. Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimovs Foundation series and Empire series of science fiction novels. ... In Isaac Asimovs Foundation series of novels, Mycogen is a sector on Trantor, galactic administration center, where Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili go to hide from Eto Demerzel and study psychohistory. ...

In a somewhat similar vein, Mark W. Tiedemann's "Robot Mystery" trilogy also portrays the Spacers as a group genetically distinct from Earthpeople and their Settler descendants. Tiedemann's trilogy, set between The Robots of Dawn and its sequel Robots and Empire, attempts to update Asimov's work to reflect more recent scientific and science-fictional speculation, for example explaining the lack of nanotechnology in Asimov's robot-ridden society. According to Tiedemann's Aurora (2002), the cumulative effects of genetic alterations (due partly to nanotech devices since abandoned) have separated Spacers from the rest of humanity, to such an extent that the word "human" in the Three Laws of Robotics may no longer apply to them. Mark W. Tiedemann is an American author. ... The Robots of Dawn is a whodunit science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983. ... Robots and Empire is a 1985 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. ... Molecular gears from a NASA computer simulation. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

In his Lucky Starr series of juvenile (or in modern parlance, "young adult") novels, Asimov describes the "Sirians" in terms which resemble those for the Spacers. Lucky Starr is the hero of a series of books by Isaac Asimov, using the pen name Paul French. Intended for juveniles, the books were written in the middle of the Cold War and the series shows traces of this, both in educational intent and in the nature of the... For information on Sirius satellite radio, see Sirius Satellite Radio. ...

External link

• The Rise and the Fall of the Spacers