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Foundation's Edge represents the problem for Foundation and Earth: why did Trevise decide for Gaia? The solution, he thinks, can only lie on Earth, but all memory of Earth has been removed from the old Imperial Library preserved on Trantor by the Second Foundation, and even from Gaia itself. Trevise's search takes him first to Comporellon, which was founded according to legend in the first millennium of hyperspatial travel, remembers a legendary founder named Benbally, and may once have been called Benbally World (clearly, Ben Baley and Baleyworld).
On Comporellon, Trevise becomes involved with the Minister of Transportation, Mitza Lizalor, and his group is allowed to escape with its ship and information about another group of mysterious worlds called the "Spacer Worlds" or the "Forbidden Worlds." They set forth some possibly mythical spatial coordinates for three Spacer worlds and land on Aurora.
Aurora is deserted except for packs of feral dogs. Trevise is attacked but drives them off, at Bliss's suggestion, with his neuronic whip. The second Spacer world is Solaria, where the Solarians are found underground, extensively mutated to be hermaphroditic and equipped with brain lobes bulging behind each ear that convert heat flow into mechanical energy for all the robots and other machines on the estate. They learn about the deserted Spacer Worlds from Bander, the one they encounter, who knows and cares nothing about Earth but is about to destroy them before Bliss interferes and in the process kills Bander.
They rescue Bander's immature child Fallom and move on to the third set of coordinates, which leads them to a deserted, inhospitable planet named Melpomenia, where they find book films and a dangerous kind of moss (like "Green Patches"), as well as coordinates of the other 47 Spacer worlds. Pelorat suggests they look at the center of the sphere the 50 Spacer worlds make and locate a world named Alpha.
Alpha turns out to be an arcadian utopia, which feeds and entertains them, including a sexual interlude with a beautiful Asian woman named Hiroko for Trevise, who hears from one old man legends of a radioactive Earth and gets a description of the slow abandonment of Earth as well as a description of the Sixties from Pebble in the Sky. The Galactic Empire tried to replace the radioactive soil without success and finally transplanted the remaining humans to Alpha (which is Alpha Centauri). But in keeping with Bliss's theory that isolated worlds all turn dangerous and deadly, Hiroko warns them that they must escape before the deadly virus with which Trevise was deliberately infected during intercourse is activated when the men return from fishing.
Trevise's spaceship heads for a star system only a parsec or so from

 
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