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Foundation
that just says it all. i real this book when i was about 10, and it opened up a whole new world for me. buy it. read it. for those of you who thought it was boring, you are simple-minded fools.
Foundation
Foundation has been called by science-fiction lovers all over the world as a cornerstone for science fiction. Isaac Asimov's all time best, this book tells the tale of the crumbling of the Galactic Empire and is only the beggining of a 7-book series. The way Asimov uses the analogy of the Fall of the Roman Empire has pleased readers for decades. Asimov tells the story of a planet alone at the edge of the galaxy awaiting a future already planned for it. Leaders struggle for the planets survival, for this planet, Terminus, holds the future of the Human Race in its hands. Isaac Asimov tells the thrilling tells the thrilling tale of human survival in an environment that is against it.
Foundation
Some people have said that they read the prelude and went on to foundation. You will probably be mixed up because you skipped a book!!! AFTER READING PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION READ FORWARD THE FOUNDATION and then jump on to the classic book that started it all.
Foundation
Prelude to Foundation is excellent. However, you should stop there. Foundation is bad. This book is totally predictable. Read DUNE if you want something intelligent and entertaining. Read FOUNDATION if you want something that you probably won't even finish.
Foundation
The day this book (and its sequels) fell on my hands, i felt my eyes opened up. I could`t believe someone on this planet would ever write such an amazing, inteligent a so enjoyable story. You MUST read it, otherwise, you would be missing half of the galaxy. Trust me. Enjoy it.
Foundation
"Foundation" is a must. Even if your taste is for other styles, Asimov's "future history" has rightly become part of the science fiction canon of great books.The first episode in "Foundation" appeared about 50 years ago as a stand-alone story in Astounding Science Fiction under the title "Bridle and Saddle." At the time, Asimov had no idea where it would eventually lead. Hari Seldon, Salvor Hardin, and the Galactic Empire emerged in that single story to shape all the "Foundation" novels that were to follow. It's all the more remarkable, then, to read that story today with the realization that none of the sequels or "prequels" had yet been thought of.The original "Foundation" trilogy is written in a style that may seem quaint or even prim in comparison to the baroque convolutions found in some novels of the '90s. And, at the time, one reviewer had trouble with the episodicity: "The bare bones show." On the other hand, many readers find those early Asimov stories to be quite refreshing.If I had to choose, I would rate "Foundation" as the best of the entire series. Outside the "Foundation" series, I think "Caves of Steel" is his very best, closely followed by "Pebble in the Sky," although, as Asimov himself said, the latter was written at a time when almost nothing was known about the hazards of nuclear radiation.Some critics have questioned the logic in Hari Seldon's "psychohistory." Deterministic as it is, how can Asimov's clever heroes count for much in the grand scheme of things? Perhaps, in some as yet unwritten novel, "psychohistory" will be revealed to be a kind of secular religion where the mathematical trappings are a faade behind which a happy few labor heroically to save the galaxy.