Who's who in Asimov A

Intro A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Abel, Ludigan: Trantor's Ambassador to Sark, and one of the key figures in the events which led to the evacuation of Florina. (5)
Acarnio, Tryma: Successor to Las Zenow as Chief Librarian of the Galactic Library. Initially sympathetic to Hari Seldon's extensive use of library facilities for his Encyclopedia Galactica project, he feared public hostility after Seldon's highly-publicized court cases and pessimistic prognoses of the state of the Empire. He was persuaded to allow Seldon's researchers the facilities they needed after a visit by Wanda Seldon and Stettin Palver. (9-IV-27,32)
Action Party: Political grouping set up on Terminus to oppose what its supporters saw as the appeasement of the Four Kingdoms by the Foundation under Salvor Hardin's rule. (10-III-1,2,4)
Agis XIV: Reluctantly made Emperor after the collapse of the military junta which took power after the assassination of Cleon I, Agis nevertheless offered what support he could to Hari Seldon's psychohistorical research. He was deposed by the Commission for Public Safety shortly before the exile to Terminus of the Encyclopedia Galactica researchers. (9-IV-11,21,29)
Alem: Ruffian employed by Daneel Olivaw, in the guise of Eto Demerzel, to encourage Hari Seldon to return quickly to Helicon after his arrival on Trantor. Alem's attempted assault was resisted by Daneel Olivaw, in the guise of Chetter Hummin. (8-II-6)
Aliena, Vasilia: Youngest of Han Fastolfe's two daughters, educated, against Auroran custom, by her father. While studying robotics her experiments in programming led accidentally to the robot Giskard Reventlov being given telepathic powers. After her father rejected her sexual advances, she rejected him and his Humanist beliefs and joined the Robotics Institute of Aurora, where she became involved in Kelden Amadiro's plan to gain information on humaniform robots from Jander Panell. After discovery of Amadiro's activities led to the compromise which saw Fastolfe's foreign policy prevail, she herself designed a number of humaniform robots at the RIA, but by then the civilian population of Aurora had become deeply suspicious of humaniforms, and they were mothballed.; A chance discovery on Solaria while on a factfinding tour of the Outer Worlds, together with her observations of events on Earth and Aurora led her to deduce Giskard's powers, but when she attempted to destroy Daneel Olivaw, Giskard used his powers to prevent her. (3-7-28,8-35,9,10; 4-4-12-48,49,13-53,54,55,56,14-63)
Alpha (Alpha Centauri): Binary star in what in Imperial and later times was called the Sirius Sector. Also the second of its five planets, which was terraformed with an ocean and a single island of some 15,000 square kilometres to which the remaining population of Earth was moved once it became clear that the increasing levels of radiation on Earth could not be reversed. As it was at the approximate centre of the Spacer worlds, it was visited by Golan Trevize's expedition in search of Earth, by which time its population of 25,000 was living from farming and fishing, with its technology being concentrated on a localised weather control and the development of more ecologically-stable flora and fauna. (14-VI)
Alurin, Bor: Psychologist of Trantor, invited to join the Second Foundation when Stettin Palver and Wanda Seldon discovered that he had mental powers similar to their own. He eventually joined the Encyclopedia Galactica project on Terminus, where he gave training in psychology to, among others, Salvor Hardin. Although the first operation of the Time Vault revealed that Alurin was part of the Foundation rather than the Encyclopedia project, his role as a Second Foundationer was never discovered by the Foundation. (9-IV-34; 10-II-3,7)
Amadiro, Kelden: Roboticist of Aurora, formerly a student of Han Fastolfe, a member of Aurora's World Legislature, and a leading Globalist. Like Fastolfe, he was aware that the Spacers' longevity and tendency towards individualism placed them at a disadvantage and founded the Robotics Institute of Aurora in an attempt to speed technological progress by encouraging co-operation between scientists in the field of robotics.; When his attempts to emulate Han Fastolfe's work on humaniform robots came to nothing, he tried to extract the necessary expertise from Jander Panell, but after Giskard Reventlov had caused Panell to go into stasis Amadiro's activities were uncovered during Elijah Baley's investigation, and he was forced to give way to Fastolfe's Humanist foreign policy. He nursed his hatred of Earth in general and Baley in particular long after Baley's death, until, when Fastolfe died, he was able, with the help of Levular Mandamus, to attempt to destroy Earth itself, a plan partially prevented by Giskard. (3-13-54,14,18; 4-4,5-18-84,90,91)
Amaryl, Yugo: Heatsinker of the Dahl sector of Trantor, and a self-taught mathematician, who met Hari Seldon during Seldon's visit to Dahl. He was later invited to join Seldon's researchers, filling the gap left when Seldon found himself First Minister to Cleon I, and then tied up in the administrativa of keeping the project going. With Seldon, he devised the idea of a hidden Second Foundation of psychohistorians with mental powers. Despite his untimely death at the age of fifty-five, his contribution to the development of psychohistory was second only to that of Seldon himself. (8-13-62,63,64; 9-I-1,II-3,III-22,25,IV-3,4,9)
Anacreon: At eight parsecs distance, the nearest significant planet to Terminus, situated between Terminus and Santanni, Vega and Trantor, from which it was 10,000 parsecs distant. Anacreon was the capital of an Imperial Prefect of the same name, consisting of twenty-five stellar systems, and the first of the Prefects of the Periphery to secede from the Empire, and hence the first of what became known as the Four Kingdoms. Anacreon was where the Foundation's policy of spiritual control was first established, and strongest; for a long time Hari Seldon was revered as a prophet and the Foundation as his disciples who would lead its followers to paradise. Evidently Anacreon was renowned also for the sensitive noses of its dogs. (9-IV-1; 10-II,III; 13-6-21,11-42)
Andorin, Gleb: Rashelle's nephew, and the most prominent member of the Wyan Mayoral family. Ambitious but essentially a playboy, he funded Gambol Deen Namarti's anti-Cleon rebel movement after the collapse of the Joranumite conspiracy, in anticipation of being made Emperor when Namarti replaced Hari Seldon as First Minister. He was killed by Manella Dubanqua when he and a bedrugged Raych Seldon attempted to assassinate Hari. (9-II-13,16,17,21,22,23,24,25)
Andrev, Edgar: Secretary-General and chief executive of Earth at the time of the visit of Daneel Olivaw and Giskard Reventlov. (4-V-17-78,79,80,81)
Andros: Major of the Outer Police of the Tyranni, and military aide to Simok Aratap. (6-10 etc.)
Anemoria: Sector of Imperial Trantor. (9-II-5)
Anselm haut Rodric: Sub-prefect of Pluema, Envoy Extraordinary of his Highness of Anacreon, sent to Terminus to negotiate the Foundation's expected ceding of power after Anacreon led the Periphery in breaking away from the control of the Empire. (10-II-1)
Anthor, Pelleas: Second Foundation agent sent via Santanni to Terminus, where he approached Toran Darell, ostensibly with information confirming the existence of a covert Second Foundation manipulating affairs on Terminus after having dealt with the Mule. Darell fell for the double-bluff, recognising Anthor as a Second Foundationer and tracking down his companions without realising that that was their intention. (12-II-7,9,11,16,20,21)
Anti-Mules: Phrase coined by Quindor Shandess to refer to the power which appeared to be perfecting the Seldon Plan but which was acting independently of the Second Foundation. (13-5-20)
Aporat, Theo: Head priest on Anacreon's flagship Wienis at the time of Anacreon's military expedition against the Foundation. (10-III-7)
Aratap, Simok: Commissioner of the Khan of the Tyranni. (6-4 etc.)
Arcadia VII: Ship which disappeared while taking Manella and Bellis Seldon from Santanni to Anacreon. (9-IV-28)
Argo, Asper: Commdor of Korell at the time of Hober Mallow's expedition there. (10-V-4,5,6,8,16)
Argolid Temple: Foundation's main religious establishment on Anacreon. (10-III-6)
Argyropol: Town on Terminus. (13-9-31)
Arvardan, Bel: Early-Empire archaeologist of Baronn, Sirius. At one time Senior Archaeologist at the University of Arcturus, later Senior Research Associate at the Imperial Archaeological Institute. His visit to Earth in the ninth century of the Galactic Empire to carry out research into the then-unpopular idea that Earth was the original home of humanity led to the uncovering of a plan by Earth's Zealots to launch a biological war on the rest of the Empire. His exploits were later recorded in Comporellian folklore. (7; 13-12-44)
Askone: Planet with a rigorously-enforced ban on the importation of technology from the Foundation, ostensibly because of a belief in a curse on atomic technology dating back to the Foundation priesthood's interdict at the time of Anacreon's attack on the Foundation. Askone was the last of the worlds to fall under the control of the Foundation's religion as its neighbours became more determined than ever to maintain their independence. (10-IV)
Asperta: Planet coming into the Foundation's sphere of influence at the time of the Mule. (11-II-15)
Association of Independent Traders: Early manifestation of the independent trader alliance which eventually led to the planning of a civil war aganist the Foundation's plutocratic regime. (11-I-8)
Astinwald, Gebore: Officer of the Dahl Security Forces sent to arrest Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili. (8-14-77,78)
Attlebish, Corwin: Chief aide to Hannis Gruer, and acting Head of Security on Solaria after Gruer had been poisoned during the investigation of the murder of Rikaine Delmarre. (2-8,17,18,19)
Aurora: The first of the Outer Worlds to be colonized by the Spacers, originally called New Earth but renamed Aurora after the Roman goddess of the dawn, circling the star known to Earth as Tau Ceti, 3.67 parsecs from Earth, in what was in Imperial and later times called the Sirius Sector. As the colonization of the planet was assisted by robots (Han Fastolfe maintaining that Aurora as a whole followed the three Laws of Robotics) so its society became increasingly dependent on them, which with the longevity and individualism of the Spacers induced a degree of inertia. When its population was stabilized at 200 million it was the most populous and powerful of the Outer Worlds but, like them, unable to compete with the second, and more vigorous, wave of emigration which left Earth to colonize the rest of the galaxy.; After the death of Han Fastolfe, who had kept Spacers and Settlers from violent conflict, anti-Earth sentiment gained the ascendancy, with the Chairman of Aurora's World Legislature little more than a figurehead behind whom real power was wielded by Kelden Amadiro.; When Golan Trevize's expedition rediscovered Aurora during their search for Earth some 20,000 years later, they found a still-benign climate, and found the remains of a robot in a derelict city, but the human inhabitants had long since disappeared, and dogs had become the dominant animal life.; See also Mycogen. (3; 4:I,IV; 8-10-47,12-56,14-69; 14-III)
Avakim, Lors: Lawyer engaged by Hari Seldon to represent Gaal Dornick after Dornick's arrest by the Commission of Public Safety on Trantor. (10-I-5,7)