Foundation (Foundation #1)

Posted on 04 November 2017 by Isaac Asimov

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme Now it is dying But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire both scientists and scholars and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire Mankind s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice submit to the barbarians and be overrun or fight them and be destroyed. Read Foundation (Foundation #1) Author Isaac Asimov – kino-fada.fr Honestly, I don t get why this book series is so popular There are some interesting elements to it for instance, the use of religion as a tool of mass control and the implicit resultant argument that religion is nothan a fraud, the opiate of the people, after all , but the book gave me little to enjoy or dig into The forces of the novel are broad, historical, dealing with masses of people this means that there is little to no room for individual characters here and little to be done Honestly, I don t get why this book series is so popular There are some interesting elements to it for instance, the use of religion as a tool of mass contro...A great story, told in a terribly boring fashion One dimensional characters engaged in various trade negotiations, political upheavals and general planning Dry beyond belief The concepts are very engaging religion as a means of control, psychohistory, etc but the telling of the story leaves much to be desired Some sections are much better than others, particularly 1 3 There is a really good story between the lines here one that I think would work much, much better as a television s A great story, told in a terribly boring fashion O...This is the most ambitious thing I ve ever read The scope of this is just hugely imaginative The idea is to create the new, and perfect, galactic empire The old one is dying But new empires don t just pop up overnight it takes years for the right circumstances to arise it takes years for all the pieces to slot perfectly into place The brightest mind of the age has used his incredibly farfetched, yet incredibly brilliant, psychohistory to predict the exact date the ...2.5 rounded up to 3 for the idea I postponed writing the review as I was hoping that something would click in my head and I would realize just how magnificent this novel is It did not happen, unfortunately First of all, I was made to believe that this is a SF book It isn t Not really It isof a socio political one It is not even a novel, but a set of stories who present a series of political, sociological, psychological and religious ideas all based on the famous Psychohistory conce 2.5 rounded up to 3 for the idea I postponed writing the review as I was hoping that something would click in my head and I would realize just how magnificent this novel is It did not happen, unfortunately First of all, I was made to believe that this is a SF book It isn t Not really It isof a socio political one It is not even a novel, but a set of stories who present a series of political, sociological, psychological and religious ideas all based on the famous Psychohistory concept The ease with which a religion can be created and the power it can have over the masses scared me as it is so valid even today To use religion to control planets was a brilliant and scary idea and it felt the most interesting part of the book The premise of the Foundation is brilliant, I admit However, it would have been marvelous if the author have made me care about any of it Th...I read this again after about a thirty year hiatus I remember as a high schooler liking it, and I read and liked some of the sequels, but not entirely getting the full ideas presented After some time to grow up and mature, I think I can appreciate Asimov s vision better than before Maybe it was the lack of much action that hindered my enjoyment as a teenager, but as an adult I ...Foundation The name is apt Isaac Asimov s sprawling scifi tale is the rock on which much of today s space opera is built Truer scifi historians than me would cite the late 1920s and pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and E E Doc Smith as the DNA donors that spawned a thousand space operas They would be right, but Asimov s fame towers above all others His 1952 story of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire is space opera s foundation.Unfortunately, the analogy continues Fou Foundation The name is apt Isaac Asimov s sprawling scifi tale is the rock on which much of today s space opera is built Truer scifi historians than me would cite the late 1920s and pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and E E Doc Smith as the DNA donors that spawned a thousand space operas They would be right, but Asimov s fame towers above all others His 1952 story of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire is space opera s foundation.Unfortunately, the analogy continues Foundation has all the elements of poor writing that makes stuffy literary aristocrats stick their noses up at the genre And rightfully so Flat characters, a lack of economical yet creative prose, and endless dialogue are the genr...From my first reading of this Foundation Trilogy when I was fourteen to my latest reading today, I still put these in my top ten books of all time No question.Why So many reasons And even though the characters and the short story like presentation of the different times are quite fine and memorable, it isn t these that I point to.It s the ideas.It s also how our history is writ large as SF It s the social exploration It s the re establishment of civilization, one building block at a time It From my first reading of this Foundation Trilogy when I was fourteen to my latest reading today, I still put these in my top ten books of all time No question.Why So many reasons And even though the characters and the short story like presentation of the different times are quite fine and memorable, it isn t these that I point to.It s the ideas.It s also how our history is writ large as SF It s the social exploration It s the re establishment of civilization, one building block at a time It s the scary devolvement of all civilization, too All dystopia and the glimmer of optimism It s a grand slide and a hard scrabble in a far future galactic civilization th...Absolutely Loved it Hail Asimov He is brilliant His writing is enchanting and filled with awe inspiring genius Work of sheer Ingenuity Height of Inventiveness..The Foundation trilogy three first books and the Foundation series all seven are often regarded as the greatest set of Science Fiction literature ever produced The Foundation series won the one time Hugo Award for Best All Time Series in 1966 Isaac Asimov was among the world s best authors, an accomplished scientist, and he was also a genius with an IQ above 170, and it shows in the intelligently concocted but complex plots and narrative There are already 331 reviews for this Science Fi The Foundation trilogy three first books and the Foundation series all seven are often regarded as the greatest set of Science Fiction literature ever produced The Foundation series won the one time Hugo Award for Best All Time Series in 1966 Isaac Asimov was among the world s best authors, an accomplished scientist, and he was also a genius with an IQ above 170, and it shows in the intelligently concocted but complex plots and narrative There are already 331 reviews for this Science Fiction novel, however, I still believe I have something unqiue to contribute which is stated in my last paragraph This book and the rest in the series take place far in the future allegedly 50,000 years at a time when people live throughout the Galaxy A mathematician Hari Seldon has developed a new branch of mathematics known as psychohistory Using the law of mass action, it can roughly predict the future on a large scale...Yes, I have read Foundation before, chances are you have too However, for some reason I missed out on the later Foundation books from Foundation s Edge, I can barely remember who Hari Seldon is or why Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent So reread the series from the beginning it is then no great hardship really, a fun time is already guaranteed, and the three volumes combined are shorter than a single book by Pet...

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04 November 2017

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