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Pros
The story of trantor is both fascinating and yet anxiety inducing. While the new apple adaptation brings a spotlight to the lack of female characters in the book, age and experience of the reader bring greater understanding of the rises and falls of c... Read More
Book is a collection of 5 short stories highlighting the rise of the foundation after the collapse of the galactic empire. Hari seldon lives beyond the book and in the background of today's major political and social events. Susan the sweep of a galac... Read More
Cons
In the first 70 pages there are only off-handed mentions of women as housewives, and are only discussed as a commodity held by the men who work for the foundation. While rome did do a pretty good job of holding the world together for a thousand years,... Read More
My main complaint though is that this entire book ignores don't tell me, show me.
The stories, after taking off their futuristic vector seem unsophisticated and melodramatic.
Highlights
Quality
Now, after long years i appreciate the smooth transitions, colorful characters and mathematic precision of this work.
The foundation series introduced concepts such as atomic power, advanced robotics, and psychohistory-informed technology.
Transistors were brand new; computers took up half a room, and could only run 50-line programs that took over a day at that point.
The message needs to be retold, and adhered to.
Shipping
Entranced at the time, i devoured the initial trilogy.
Competitiveness
I think that i fairly easily caught on to the analogies of the roman empire (vs.
Although this is only the first book written by asimov and two later books are prequels, i found little similarity with the tv version.
Then the rise of using religion as a weapon to expand the rule of the foundation through clever traders, the rise of trading an... Read More
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There can be a little bit more character development
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I wanted to reread the foundation series after having seen the first two seasons of apple tv’s version
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There’s not much of the original books in that tv show
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It seemed to be a lot longer the first time i read it
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I enjoyed reading it a second time but it really did not seem to be as impressive as it did years ago
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Its kind of scary that this was published in the early fifties and it had a storyline about a politician putting a political rival on trial for a bogus crime and not caring if there was a conviction or not as long as the trial disgraced the rival
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I really recall hardin having a much bigger role
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I cant wait to get to book two
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