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One more trip outside my usual reading waters. Science fiction. Foundation makes me remember why I loved science fiction when I was in my late teens and early twenties. The whole world is tilted and new ways of thinking and doing things become possible. All our world leaders need to read science fiction, with its ominous ventures into possible futures.
Foundation is the story of a world set up solely as place to compile an enormous encyclopedia, an effort for the ages. But as the story moves for ...more
Foundation is the story of a world set up solely as place to compile an enormous encyclopedia, an effort for the ages. But as the story moves for ...more
There are elements of Foundation that are imaginative, and it may have been the best science fiction available for many years, but it has issues that kept me from appreciating the book.
The first issue is the lack of character depth. The characters are shallow and you don't get a chance to know them well enough to care about them. Perhaps Gaal Dornick, in Part I, is the best developed character. We at least get to know he was raised in a rural community and was totally unprepared for life in a bi ...more
The first issue is the lack of character depth. The characters are shallow and you don't get a chance to know them well enough to care about them. Perhaps Gaal Dornick, in Part I, is the best developed character. We at least get to know he was raised in a rural community and was totally unprepared for life in a bi ...more
Sheer torture! The whole damned foundation trilogy was assigned in my first political science class in 1980. I nearly changed my major.
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