What is "foundationer"

Usage examples of "foundationer".

Second Foundationer behind, but several dozen, as seems perfectly likely, what then?

No Foundationer had been on Trantor in a hundred and twenty years, but there was no reason to believe the Library was not still there.

First Foundationer, Golan Trevize, who hovers in your mind but whom you do not mention?

May I point out, to begin with, that I know of no instance since the Great Sack that a Second Foundationer has been spoken to disrespectfully-let alone manhandled-by one of these Hamish people.

I have until this hour felt that the situation was not at crisis level-that the First Foundationer would come here and that we would, through him, learn what we need to know.

He would be demoted to the ranks, demoted to the position of a Second Foundationer, plain and simple.

It was one thing, however-and a very honored thing-to be a Second Foundationer of the ranks, particularly if one held a respectable title, as Gendibal might even after the impeachment.

Golan Trevize -the First Foundationer who has been driven from Terminus and whom the First Speaker and I believe to be the knife-edge of the gathering crisis has moved off in an unexpected direction.

Remember, too, that even if the verdict satisfies us, it may not satisfy those who come after us, and I cannot believe that a Second Foundationer of any level-let alone the Speakers of the Table-would not have a full appreciation of the importance of historical perspective.

What followed was, in the ordinary sense of the word, an illusion, since no one but someone who was aided by the mentalic power of a well-trained Second Foundationer would have been able to detect anything at all, either by the senses or by any physical detecting device.

Nor, for that matter, could one Second Foundationer tap the mentalist-vision of another.

Somehow, he caught an image of Sura Noviwho was not a Speaker, not even a Second Foundationer, not even educated grimly at his side, playing a vital auxiliary role in the drama that was coming.

He was not a spacemanno Second Foundationer wasbut neither was he a complete surface worm, for no Second Foundationer was allowed to be that.

The possible need for space flight was, after all, always looming above them, though every Second Foundationer hoped the need would arise only infrequently.

It would never occur to a Second Foundationer to use a ship of alien manufacture, even if they knew how neatly we could identify the origin of a ship from the pattern of its energy use.