Various authors have invoked the "Encyclopædia Galactica" in both science and science fiction. The first may have been author Frank Holby's short story "The Strange Case of the Missing Hero" in the July 1942 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction" which featured Sebastian Lelong, editor of the "Encyclopedia". It was also a common fixture in previous incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes comic books, and has appeared in the "Star Wars" expanded universe and Superman comics set in the future. The "Encyclopedia Galactica" was also mentioned as being a collection of all the knowledge of a galactic Empire in the science fiction short story called "The Originist", which was written by American novelist Orson Scott Card in 1989, and took place in Isaac Asimov's fictional "Foundation" Universe.