YMMV / Foundation and Earth

• Hilarious in Hindsight: An AI created by a now gone race has a network of data collecting robots whom it controls from a moon base. So much data has been collected, that the AI cannot develop further in its current form, so it lures a superpowered surviving representative of its creator race to its base in order to merge with it and evolve to the next stage. Fifteen years later, "Twilight", from the second season of Justice League had Superman involved in a very similar plot.
• Values Dissonance: When Fallom, a hermaphrodite, joins the crew in the book, the adults have to decide which pronouns to use. They decide that, because Fallom can bear children, 'she' is the most appropriate. With more modern sensibility, this would be considered misgendering and offensive; it would be more appropriate to ask Fallom what pronouns to use, with 'they' being the most common.

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