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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)

Isaac Asimov

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Sep 01, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ultimate-reading-list, popular-fiction, fiction, novels, science-fiction

The trilogy of books Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation are among the best Asimov ever wrote among his science-fiction novels and among his most influential. I've read it was based on Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Only this empire spans the galaxy. Hari Seldon predicts through "psychohistory" the empire will fall within 300 years and establishes a foundation to manipulate history to shorten the dark ages that will follow.

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Feb 13, 2023 M rated it it was ok · review of another edition

The novels before the Mule were really repetitive and uninteresting. (1. One guy is just so much smarter than all the others but the world is too lame to see it!! 2. Well haha, suckers, he was right all along and now he's in charge!!) Also a notable dearth of women until the Mule. Then I wasn't such a fan of how the trilogy wrapped up, but it was fine... I wouldn't recommend these. ...more

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