Helicon (planet)
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In Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Helicon is the name of the home planet of Hari Seldon, discoverer and developer of psychohistory. Helicon was small in population and not particularly rich in resources, and tended to be bullied by its more powerful neighbours. It was noted for martial arts (called 'Twisting' in the Foundation Universe). Hari Seldon claimed that the best Twisters came from Helicon, although his objectivity is questionable. It may be covered primarily by land, as opposed to sea. Tobacco may be grown there, though the only evidence of this is Seldon's father's supposed occupation, labelled by the Encyclopedia Galactica 'a legend of doubtful validity'. In the seventh century of the tenth millennium of the Galactic Era, a large movement of Heliconians convinced themselves that Helicon was the only inhabited world in the Galaxy.
Two indigenous species are known: the lamec, a beast of burden, and the greti. The greti appears in the saying 'If you ride a greti, you find you can't get off'; for then it will eat you. The names of these animals are most likely anagrams of camel and tiger, respectively.
Apart from Arcturus, it is the only known planet in the Arcturus Sector.
| Major and minor planets featured in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series |
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Anacreon | Aurora | Baley's World (Comporellon) | Earth | Gaia | Helicon | Kalgan | Korell | Delicass (Neotrantor) | Sayshell | Solaria | Siwenna | Tazenda | Terminus | Trantor (Hame) |
It is named after Mount Helicon in Boeotia.
