trygve's review
Foundation and Earth (Foundation 5)
by Isaac Asimov
trygve's review
Foundation and Earth (Foundation 5) by Isaac Asimov
trygve's review
rating:
A lot of my criticisms of the Foundation series diminish with this book. It was a marked improvement in most regards, in large part because this book finally moves on from the enforced ignorance of the Foundation (regarding Psychohistory), and is about a quest for the truth about some of the mysterious things that have been going on, what forces have really been maneuvering everyone, how they did it, and why.
The only complaint I really had was the tedious and predictable repetition of the pro/anti Gaia debates. They had they're place, but I just couldn't fathom why I was reading the same arguments over and over again so many times. Thankfully it was worse at the beginning, and so it got better as the book moved on.
In the end, I felt this book did a far better job of giving me closure than any of the previous, even if it didn't progress half a millenia into the future to show the completion of Seldon's plan.
The only complaint I really had was the tedious and predictable repetition of the pro/anti Gaia debates. They had they're place, but I just couldn't fathom why I was reading the same arguments over and over again so many times. Thankfully it was worse at the beginning, and so it got better as the book moved on.
In the end, I felt this book did a far better job of giving me closure than any of the previous, even if it didn't progress half a millenia into the future to show the completion of Seldon's plan.
