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Foundation (Foundation, #1)

Isaac Asimov

Start date: October 1, 2020

Finish date: October 31, 2020

Discussion: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Sep 03, 2019 Sarah rated it did not like it

Shelves: dnf, audio, borrowed

I've been wanting to read this for a long long time. It was dreadful, in the way that, sadly, much sci-fi of that era is dreadful. There were a whole lot of great ideas here. Asimov's political and historical ideas are great -- he just didn't want to tell a story. In that respect, it reminded me of slogging through an Ayn Rand novel. It was all exposition, somebody telling a historical or political idea about something that happened to someone else. Which to me = boring. Was it Mark Twain that s ...more

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Dec 23, 2021 Xan Shadowflutter rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2021_reads, science-fiction

Predicting big events in the future by using statistical analysis of the past is an interesting idea, but there is too much here I don't like -- characters are stereotypes, story repeats itself, and Great Men with boundless egos who take counsel from no one come along just when needed to ensure historical forces converge in the way the need to.
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