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As great as the original Foundation series with an extra portion of wit and humor, thereby more focused on society, characters, and human behavior than on psychohistory and big meta worldbuilding as in the original trilogy. Heroes journey throughout innuendos and satirical deconstruction of universit Leggi tutto

Chronologically the first book in the Foundation (post Robot era Galactic Empire series), yet only published in 1988, four years prior to his death, yet the then 68 year old Isaac Asimov is still creating and expanding his Empire reality! In this book we get to meet Hari Seldon when he first propose Leggi tutto

Unless you're just a die-hard Foundation fan and have to read them all, "Prelude to Foundation" can safely be skipped. In particular, I'm not sure that I would recommend reading it prior to the other Foundation novels despite the fact that it's a prequel. It's not spoiling anything to briefly explain Leggi tutto

Asimov's later Foundation novels appear to be about double the size of any of the novels in the original series, but that's neither here nor there because apparently size matters these days. Or at least in the 80s? No, now too. Anyway, this isn't going to be much of a review because I don't have muc Leggi tutto

“What I have done is to prove that it is possible to choose starting conditions from which historical forecasting does not descend into chaotic conditions, but can become predictable within limits. However, what those starting conditions might be I do not know, nor am I sure that those conditions ca Leggi tutto

Before Hari Seldon became the fearsome apostle of doom and the legendary founder of psychohistory, he was an idealistic 30-year-old with an interesting scientific theory. He only meant to start a hypothetical discussion among fellow mathematicians, but ended up seriously pondering its practical appl Leggi tutto

A word of warning: Those new to the Foundation series should *not* start their journey here. It would be infinitely preferable to read these in publication order! For a huge fan of the original trilogy this was a bit of a disappointing snoozefest. The story is terribly bloated and suffers from glacia Leggi tutto