Kyle's review of Forward the Foundation
Forward the Foundation (Foundation Prequel 2) by Isaac Asimov
The odd order in which Asimov wrote these got me a little mixed up and I ended up reading this after Foundation and Earth--one of my favs of the series.
As a result, this one left me disappointed--more of Prelude's style, but this time I already knew the big secrets from the later books.
The obsession with robots that drives the prelude books also gets a little wearisome--it's out of place with the trilogy proper, where it never comes up. I've not read the robot series, so maybe it all ties together. But it's an odd effect in the Foundation series; where the robot-devoid core trilogy is surrounded by books stuffed to the gills with robot references.
As a result, this one left me disappointed--more of Prelude's style, but this time I already knew the big secrets from the later books.
The obsession with robots that drives the prelude books also gets a little wearisome--it's out of place with the trilogy proper, where it never comes up. I've not read the robot series, so maybe it all ties together. But it's an odd effect in the Foundation series; where the robot-devoid core trilogy is surrounded by books stuffed to the gills with robot references.
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