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    <body><![CDATA[This was, like its predecessors, an enjoyable story.  I enjoyed the premise for it, the pacing, and even the characterization is very much improved over the earlier Foundation novels (however little that may be saying).<br/><br/>But I cannot review this book without spoiling it.  So read no furthe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19970419">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally!  Asimov realizes the potential of his Foundation stories in this fourth volume in the series.  There is an altogether different feel to it.  Less a dramatic history and more of a suspense/mystery tale, Foundation's Edge focuses on Councilman of the Foundation Golan Trevize whose conspiracy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69170836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably blasphemy, but I liked this book better than the Foundation trilogy itself. Which isn't too surprising, my favorite of that trilogy was Second Foundation. I love mysterious behind the scenes type mysteries, and this was sort of a continuation of that theme, with the promise of more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1788447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some thirty years after the original <em>Foundation</em> trilogy, Asimov returned with a thicker volume, dealing with a time about 500 years after the Foundation was set up by Hari Seldon and focusing on Councilman Golan Trevize who is convinced that there still is a Second Foundation and that such an entity...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59762375">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok so I recently completed this fourth book in the Foundation series. It was the longest one so far and some of the motivation for that is described in the beginning of Foundation and Earth which I'm reading now. Clearly this was very different as compared to the first three, written as it was thirt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62679919">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As much as I enjoyed the first three books in the Foundation story I am beginning to feel that Asimov didn't really know where to go with the follow up stories. Foundation's Edge added a new hidden culture to the universe, which should have been exciting but the plot dragged out mercilessly. Asimov ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64348040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't know the chronology of the series or chronology of the writings.  I'm not sure how this would have changed things for me, but I would have liked to realize that earlier.<br/><br/>The first sequel of the Foundation Trilogy, and I believe the Trilogy really stands on its own.  That b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77147254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-read of the Foundation books.  Including this one mostly for completion.  I don't enjoy this book as much as the original trilogy. The story just seems too contrived and too easily tied up.  The story continues along the same lines as the rest of the Foundation series, but for some reason I find ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80315514">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of the best two Foundation novels and the reason why the series is the best science fiction series I've read.  The story of Trevize and his search for Earth and the meaning behind the foundation and it's tie in with the Robot novels etc etc.  This book and it's sequel are the best Asim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51376731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what it is about Asimov, but I just could never finish any of his robot books.  I haven't had that same problem with the Foundation series, but I may be getting onto murky ground with this book.<br/>I like my sci-fi (and all my fiction, for that matter) to be people-centric.  Sure, I l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27306597">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After having read the chronologically preceding books in the Foundation series, I had high expectations of this entry in the saga.  Most of my expectations were met.  The dialogue was believable, distinctive, and effective, and the characters were realistic and rational.  The discussions of inductiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14003944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I was too quick to judge the Foundation series: the trilogy itself I found to be somewhat pedestrian (though with it's moments and it's fascinating ideas), but this book is by far the best of the Foundation novels I have read so far.  Though Asimov does have a somewhat infuriating habit of end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49450209">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The pace of this book was slower than the previous books in the series, and Asimov spends more time on character development and intrigue than on big ideas, though, by the end of the book, a really interesting new concept is introduced.  This book was enjoyable, but not as good as the previous books...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47475217">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this last quite a number of years ago and being very puzzled as to how it could be that an older - even perhaps elderly - academic could fall in love ( as opposed to lust ) with a robot who apparently has a '10' body and a penchant for wearing translucent tops.  I don't find this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35915764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, turns out there were robots, but not in the stereotypical sense, and only very lightly.  I enjoyed it.  I think I will check out the rest of the series.<br/>--------------------------<br/>This is a nice small paperback which works well when I'm nursing, and yes, I'm a closet sci-fi geek.  I'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59430971">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Clunky prose and antiquated scifi.  What was imaginative technology in the '50s when the series began and in the '80s when it resumed no longer seems so novel.  (Imagine that after tens-of-thousands of years of future development people will have to visit a library to do research.)  So the book and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11693792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old.  But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all &amp; that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation, a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian, set out in search of the mythical planet Earth...and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.<br/> Meanwhile someone or something outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because the Foundation trilogy books were some of my favorites in high school I was incredibly excited when I heard Asimov was writing another Foundation book. But this fourth book was awful, with (as I remember it) inconsistencies with established events in the original trilogy and unbelievable plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81766899">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Whenever I get stuck in a reading rut (what I define as the inability to get beyond a few paragraphs of anything) an Asimov always gets me back on the saddle. Admittedly this book isn't as good as its predecessors but somehow it's still very, very <em>readable</em>. And that children, is why Asimov was a gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66736036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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