If Prelude to Foundation seems have leave the story of Hari Seldon in a climax afterwards the escape through Trantor, this novel close the Hari Seldon’s plot and the Foundation’s prelude story arc.
Forward the Foundation presents the man behind the mith, an ancient, even arrogant, grouchy and a bit narcissist who cannot scape from his problem just as in the previous book, but he has to set up his science, the psicohistory, in order to save the Humanity from the fall of the Empire.
As a sequel, it’s interesting point to the change of the story, presenting a different situation with the same characters, while it delves them and their defects and virtues. It is no bed of roses at the end of the way, showing us, nevertheless, a person, not a hero. Maybe it needs to refine some character, but it is a book that the Foundation’s lector shouldn’t lose sight of.
Forward the Foundation presents the man behind the mith, an ancient, even arrogant, grouchy and a bit narcissist who cannot scape from his problem just as in the previous book, but he has to set up his science, the psicohistory, in order to save the Humanity from the fall of the Empire.
As a sequel, it’s interesting point to the change of the story, presenting a different situation with the same characters, while it delves them and their defects and virtues. It is no bed of roses at the end of the way, showing us, nevertheless, a person, not a hero. Maybe it needs to refine some character, but it is a book that the Foundation’s lector shouldn’t lose sight of.