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The foundation is my first sci-fi book, that I have ever read. I was afraid that It will be full of boring descriptions (e.g. descriptions of a world, technologies, space fights and so on). I was pleased, that a plot is mainly described by dialogues. Asimov had an interesting idea, that a main character should be population of the whole galaxy instead of a single person. So he invented a concept which allows it -> psychohystory. Simply, It is a mixture of statistics and sociology/psychology. He
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