Isaac Asimov's SECOND FOUNDATION is the third volume of a trilogy that has earned "landmark" status as truly definitional to a genre. The genre, of course, is science fiction, or in its slightly hurt nickname, "speculative fiction." as Nabokov said, any exact definition of "sci-fi" would have to inc...
I am going to review the trilogy here and not just the first book. Aldiss said that the trilogy has extreme structural flaws and this is certainly the case. It is not really a trilogy at all. It is a set of interconnected short stories with the natural break one third of the way into book 2. Asi...
So, to my legion of followers who've nodded sagely at my commentary while reading 'The Foundation Trilogy', and who might have noticed the discrepancy between my complaints and my final 'rating', you may be asking what use was all that griping if I ended up liking the books after all?To that I can o...
Maybe I'm just expecting more as the trilogy wraps, but it seems like it's the same old thing, same old themes. How much power does a single individual have to affect the course of humanity for good or ill? That's the question. Predestination is again explored, but there were really no new twists...
It's so funny when SF writers, especially ones like Asimov who take themselves seriously, try to predict the future. This book contains one of my favorite examples of getting it completely wrong. We're God knows how many thousands of years on from now, they have faster-than-light travel and force fi...
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