During a 1941 subway ride, he needed to come up with an idea for a story, so he looked into a collection of Gilbert and Sullivan plays he had with him.
During a 1941 subway ride, he needed to come up with an idea for a story, so he looked into a collection of Gilbert and Sullivan plays he had with him. He saw a picture of the Grenadier Guards in Iolanthe, which led him to soliders, to military society, to feudalism, and to the breakup of the Roman Empire. When he reached John Campbell's office, he told Campbell he was planning a story about the breakup of the Galatic Empire. FTP, identify the author who thus accounted for the idea behind his Foundation series.
During a 1941 subway ride, he needed to come up with an idea for a story, so he looked into a collection of Gilbert and Sullivan plays he had with him.
Isaac {ASIMOV}