The opening chapters of Asimov's Foundation characterize Trantor as being a dense, highly-populated city, to the point that it's almost exclusively indoors and extends a mile underground. But in the
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Trantor's climate deteriorated as it was developed and urbanised, to the extent that people preferred to live underground. And Trantor itself is a bigger puzzle than almost any world.
After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series.
In an article about the '80s video game Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper, the author, Nick Bruty, says he got the name "Trantor" from "a planet in an L. Ron Hubbard book." Trantor...
I would like to know why people, websites, forums, etc. all claim that Trantor from Foundation is larger than Earth. In the book, it's clearly stated that Trantor's surface area is 19,230,000,000
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It's not a fair mystery as far as I know. But it is a bit of a homage to "All roads lead to Rome." All star travel ends at Trantor.