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    <body><![CDATA[This was as good and interesting the second time around as it was the first.  Some of the conversation seems a bit stretched and unrealistic at times.  Cumbersome is perhaps the word I'm looking for.  The characters frequently seem rather flat.  Even the main character, Hari Seldon, doesn't seem to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48721147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall&#8212;those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.<br/><br/>Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire...the man who holds the key to the future&#8212;an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've only read limited science fiction, and although I'd bought most of the Foundation series a few years ago, I had avoided reading it because I was intimidated by 'I-Robot' author, Asimov.  I thought it would be unreadable in the way Focault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco, was for me (I'll take anothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74624588">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ It is 12,020 G.E. &amp; Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological &amp; cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who'd see him fall, those whom he'd destroy if only he could read the future.<br/> Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate &amp; the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future-an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt that this was written just to explain and fill in gaps in the Foundation world.  I read all the others over ten years ago,  and only recently read this 'prelude'.  I feel that in some ways it has changed my visualizations of some of the other characters.  The younger Hari Seldon turned out to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63557946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Foundation book, and my second Asimov book (I, Robot was the first).  Even though written later than the original books in the Foundation series, I decided to read it first because it is in chronological order of the story.  I will never know whether or not this was the right thing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71216093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ It is 12,020 G.E. &amp; Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological &amp; cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who'd see him fall, those whom he'd destroy if only he could read the future.<br/> Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate &amp; the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future-an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having begun <em>Ringworld</em>, I've realized that I've read this book but didn't put review for it. The book was an enjoyable read. However, it fits into the category of high science fiction because the science and technology takes precedent over story. One thing I did find interesting, and something that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61988723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall&#8212;those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.<br/><br/>Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire...the man who holds the key to the future&#8212;an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are only 3 foundation novels. Prelude is really unecessary. And the other fifty-gagillion after the secound foundation are even more so.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ It is 12,020 G.E. &amp; Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological &amp; cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who'd see him fall, those whom he'd destroy if only he could read the future.<br/> Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate &amp; the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future-an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was about 13 or 14 and loved it. Re-reading it almost ten years later lets me read it with a depth I couldn't have at 13. Asimov was such a  genius, writing in the 1940's with a prophetic  political and technological imagination. (Granted, this was written in the 1980's as a prequ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45707181">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall&#8212;those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.<br/><br/>Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire...the man who holds the key to the future&#8212;an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Robots can fall in love!<br/>Joking aside, this was my first Foundations book and I thought it was very provoking. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall&#8212;those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.<br/><br/>Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire...the man who holds the key to the future&#8212;an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good idea, but Asimov gets stuck in a rut and his world can't develop too much.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ It's the year 12,020 G.E. Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological &amp; cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall, those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.<br/> Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate &amp; the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire, the man who holds the key to the future--an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the other Foundation books, but quit about halfway through this one.  It lacked the brilliant commentary or interesting insight into human behavior that the others had.  Never once did I think, like I did so many times reading the other books, &quot;This situation seems inescapable.  I wonde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57841183">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall&#8212;those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.<br/><br/>Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire...the man who holds the key to the future&#8212;an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[After hearing all the hype about how the Foundation series is one of science fiction's best, I decided to start with Prelude to Foundation. It is the first book in the series chronologically, although Asimov wrote it decades after creating the original Foundation series. I understood everything fine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57313811">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ It is 12,020 G.E. &amp; Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological &amp; cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who'd see him fall, those whom he'd destroy if only he could read the future.<br/> Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate &amp; the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future-an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The history of man has always dated back in time and we have only looked back at moments we cherish in our life. Incidentally the reference of time in the book is such that one must look forward to look back! Sci-Fi books or movies have never failed to thrill us. But only a few remain to see the tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26338240">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Prelude</em> is hard to describe if you haven't read the basic Foundation trilogy, at least.  But, it's all about Hari Seldon.  This is fascinating in and of itself, because Seldon is a VERY prominent figure in the Foundation books, even though he's not actually in it (except, I think, the first chapter ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21962392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of two prequels to the Foundation trilogy. The second is Forward the foundation. It follows the path of Hari Seldon from when he has delivered his paper on psychohistory at Trantor through the period known as the Flight. At first, Hari believes his discovery to be purely academic, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33654756">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  My father had always told me about how great of a series Foundation was, but I never really took the time to read any of the books.  At first, I thought that the story involving Hari Seldon was contrived and unnatural; however, nearing the last half of the book, things s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62117957">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I recall reading the original Foundation series in junior high school and being impressed by the scope of it and being intrigued by the ever-elusive predictive social science devised by Seldon.  Much, much later when Asimov wrote this prelude to the series, a prelude containing Seldon as a character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72204953">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Asimov's last books, it's also the first of his novels that I read. Needless to say I gobbled up the rest of his books at the library that year. Asimov truly hit his story-telling peak in his later years, and this book is probably more accessible, if not more famous, than any of his other nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46841608">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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