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===Part IV: Solaria===
Next, they visit [[The Naked Sun|Solaria]], where they find that the Solarians, who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel ''[[Robots and Empire]]'', have genetically engineered themselves into self-reproducing [[hermaphrodite]]s, generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact. They have also given themselves the ability to mentally channel ("transduce") great amounts of energy obtained from their vast estates via a modification to the brain, and use this as their sole source of power. The Solarians avoid ever having to interact with each other, except by holographic apparatus ("viewing"), and reproduce only when necessary to replace the dead. Bliss, Pelorat, and Trevize are nearly killed by the Solarian Sarton Bander, as the penalty is death for simply landing on the planet, but Bliss deflects the transduction at the moment Bander uses it as a weapon, accidentally killing Bander. While escaping, they stumble upon Bander's young child, Fallom, and with Fallom's help, reach the surface from Bander's underground mansion. Bliss, by preference, uses the feminine pronoun for Fallom. They take the child with them, as the Solarians would execute her &mdash; she would be surplus to their population requirements, and a more mature child from another estate would be chosen to take over Bander's estate.