The completion of the original Foundation trilogy sees the masterplan of Hari Sheldon righted by his secret safety valve. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov sees first the Mule and then the First Foundation itself looking for Sheldon’s second institution because they felt it was a threat, while the ...
There are two sayings about reading literature that I hear often. The first is that the person just can’t get into the book. The second is that I should wait 1000 pages until the character killed in the epilogue for A Storm of Swords for a cheap twist, is connected to the larger picture. True, these...
This was by far my favorite book in the original trilogy. This book was much easier to follow in comparison to the first two books, because instead of covering over a hundred years, the events all take place relatively close to each other and the narration focuses on the same characters. There were ...
I'm starting to realize that the lasting appeal of this series is less with the stories themselves and more with the ideas they represent. Psychohistory and all of its ramifications is fascinating, but the characters and conflicts that are going on in the stories themselves are less so. Part of it, ...
The search of the Second Foundation (SF) was organized first by the Mule himself. He successfully defeated the Fist foundation. We know that. He dreamed of enlarging his dictatorships to both the Foundations to make his victory complete and to rule the entirely Galaxy. He knew that the Second Found...
“Was his controlled mind so concerned with obedience as to lose initiative? He felt a thickening despondency drive him down into a strange lassitude.”Poor Captain Han Pritcher. Mind control is a common sci-fi trope but the feelings or thoughts of the person under control are rarely explored. This is...
Well. Second Foundation is, counterintuitively, the third of Isaac Asimov's space opera series Foundation, and it follows the hunt for the Second Foundation, one of two institutions set up at the time of the fall of the Galactic Empire by the great Hari Seldon to preserve the knowledge of humanity...
The first foundation trilogy of which Second Foundation is the third book (and last for decades) are among the best Asimov ever wrote among his science-fiction novels and among his most influential. In the first book Hari Seldon predicts through "psychohistory" that the empire will fall within 300 y...
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