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343: 140:(1933). The future world envisioned by Wells includes an "Encyclopaedic organization which centres upon Barcelona, with seventeen million active workers" and which is tasked with creating "the Fundamental Knowledge System which accumulates, sorts, keeps in order and renders available everything that is known". As pointed out by Wein, this Wells book was at its best-known and most influential in the late 1930s – coinciding with "the period of incubation" when the young Asimov became interested in science fiction, reading a lot of it and starting to formulate his own ideas. 334: 319:
worldbuilding project uses a fictional database called the Encyclopaedia Galactica as its primary framing device, each page presenting itself as an individual article of the Encyclopaedia and focusing on a specific aspect of the Orion's Arm universe.
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is later revealed to be an element in an act of misdirection, with its real purpose being to concentrate a group of knowledgeable scientists on a remote, resource-poor planet named
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comics set in the future. The "Encyclopedia Galactica" was also mentioned as being a collection of all the knowledge of a galactic Empire in the 1989 science fiction short story "
1375: 244: 243:, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words " 1394: 375:, with the episode titles “The Inner Solar System”, “The Outer Solar System”, “Star Trekking”, “Discovery”, and “Astronomy and the Stars”. The videos were produced by 376: 51:. The concept of a "future encyclopedia" has become "something iconic among many lovers of the science fiction", and has been reused by numerous other writers. 1341: 1191: 1508: 1457: 1432: 1365: 223: 1384: 1819: 1762: 1597: 1184: 1235: 253: 1829: 1370: 1293: 870: 859: 1755: 910: 400: 272:(1987): "... the computer that led the Lunar Revolution on time line three, code 'Neil Armstrong.' Let's skip the details; it's all in 1243: 1208: 599: 214: 379:
and distributed by Encyclopædia Britannica (Australia). Other entities associated with the production of the video series were
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as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is
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element of Asimov's work, intended to contextualize the action, to bring the trilogy closer to the
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the
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The term has been used in non-fictional contexts as well. One example is its use by
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Encyclopedia Galactica: from the Fleet Library aboard the Battlestar Galactica
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Encyclopedia Galactica: from the Fleet Library aboard the Battlestar Galactica
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La invenciĂłn del pasado: La novela histĂłrica en el marco de la posmodernidad
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There was a series of five video documentaries in 1993, collectively called
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Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
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Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Fictional encyclopædia in several science-fiction universes
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is frequently contrasted with the apparently more popular
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was a compendium of all knowledge then available in the
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Malone, Adrian; Haines-Stiles, Geoffrey (1980-12-14),
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is the name of a number of fictional or hypothetical
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could store all of their information and knowledge.
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Index

encyclopedias
knowledge
galaxy
civilization
Isaac Asimov
Foundation series
Isaac Asimov
Astounding Science Fiction
Foundation
Galactic Empire
Terminus
literary device
Foundation series
epigraphs
H. G. Wells
The Shape of Things to Come
paratextual
historical novel
palimpsestic
science
science fiction
Legion of Super-Heroes
Star Wars expanded universe
Superman
The Originist
Orson Scott Card
the comic science fiction series by Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
apocryphal
DON'T PANIC

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