Chris's review
Foundation and Earth (Foundation Series, #7)
by Isaac Asimov
Chris's review
Foundation and Earth (Foundation Series, #7) by Isaac Asimov
Chris's review
rating:
recommended for: Anyone who likes great literature
Asimov is a freaking *master*. Though the course of this book seems tedious and winding, and though the "but I'm Bliss / but I'm Gaia" bantering gets really old, though the pacing of the search for Earth gets excruciatingly slow at times, the final chapter of this book is so remarkably insightful, masterful, and ingenius that it simply boggles my mind to know how he could ever have written the first books in the series without this one already in his head, or how so much time could have elapsed before the publication of this installment, or even how the first three books in the series could have alone garnered so many prestigious awards.
To have an author pull together so many disparate characters, worlds, and plot lines as paints while using the entire fictional galaxy and centuries of fictional history as his canvas is formidable enough. To do so in a manner that produced such memorable and clearly distinguishable events, places, and characters is another thing altoget...more
To have an author pull together so many disparate characters, worlds, and plot lines as paints while using the entire fictional galaxy and centuries of fictional history as his canvas is formidable enough. To do so in a manner that produced such memorable and clearly distinguishable events, places, and characters is another thing altoget...more
