Barry Cunningham’s Reviews > The Foundation Novels 7-Book Bundle: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation > Status Update
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Just finished Foundation’s Edge. Written 30 years after the original Foundation Trilogy, Asimov’s greater writing experience shows. Much better written. You’ll still never get poetic descriptions from Asimov, but the timespan is cut down so that some actual characters emerge.
— Sep 26, 2025 12:59PM
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Barry Cunningham
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Just finished Foundation and Earth. Quite the romp.
— Oct 05, 2025 07:28PM
Barry Cunningham
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Finished Second Foundation. So far this has been a reread of the original trilogy which I speed read in one weekend in 1970 while I was moving out of the commune on Evans Street in Dorchester to an apartment on Corbett Street, about a block away, soon after my father died.
As might be expected with a story that spans thousands of years, it’s plot driven rather than character driven.
— Sep 15, 2025 01:17PM
As might be expected with a story that spans thousands of years, it’s plot driven rather than character driven.
Barry Cunningham
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Finished Foundation and Empire.
Ready to start Second Foundation.
— Aug 30, 2025 06:52PM
Ready to start Second Foundation.
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Just starting Part II: The Mule in Foundation and Empire.
— Aug 28, 2025 05:35PM
Barry Cunningham
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Finished Foundation.
Starting Foundation and Empire.
— Aug 26, 2025 01:30PM
Starting Foundation and Empire.
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Just started Part IV, The Traders in the first novel.
— Aug 25, 2025 06:28PM
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Just starting: Foundation, Part I. The Psychohistorians, Chapter 1.
This is partly a reread actually. I read borrowed copies of the first 3 novels very quickly over a weekend in 1970 when I first moved into an apartment on Corbett Street in Dorchester, leaving the commune on Evans Street I had moved into in the summer of 1968.
— Aug 20, 2025 12:26PM
This is partly a reread actually. I read borrowed copies of the first 3 novels very quickly over a weekend in 1970 when I first moved into an apartment on Corbett Street in Dorchester, leaving the commune on Evans Street I had moved into in the summer of 1968.
