Prelude to Foundation

Posted on 27 November 2018 by Isaac Asimov

Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780586071113It is 12,020 G.E and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity Yet Cleon knows there are those who d see him fall, those whom he d destroy if only he could read the future.Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire the man who holds the key to the future an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation. Free Read [ Prelude to Foundation ] Author [ Isaac Asimov ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr In the realm of science fiction, Isaac Asimov s stories have always been my woobie This rings especially true for his Robot and Foundation series For me, they re a literary panic room where I can escape the stress storms and never ending deadlines of the day to day ruckus into a much simpler time where the ambient happy is always turned way up Yes yes before you say it, I ll acknowledge your gripes about Asimov and even concede to some of them Asimov wasn t as skilled a wordsmith as, say, J In the realm of science fiction, Isaac Asimov s stories have always been my woobie This rings especially true for his Robot and Foundation series For me, they re a literary panic room where I can escape the stress storms and never ending deadlines of the day to day ruckus into a much simpler time where the ambient happy is always turned way up Yes yes before you say it, I ll acknowledge your gripes about Asimov and even con...What I have done is to prove that it is possible to choose starting conditions from which historical forecasting does not descend into chaotic conditions, but can become predictable within limits However, what those starting conditions might be I do not know, nor am I sure that those conditions can be found by any one person or by any number of people in a finite length of time. That is pretty much the gist of what Hari Seldon, Asimov s most iconic character, tries to accomplish in Prelude toWhat I have done is to prove that it is possible to choose starting conditions from which historical forecasting does not descend into chaotic conditions, but can become predictable within limits However, what those starting conditions might be I do not know, nor am I sure that those conditions can be found by any one person or by any number of people in a finite length of time. That is pretty much the gist of what Hari Seldon, Asimov s most iconic character, tries to accomplish in Prelude to ...THAT twist.Unless you re just a die hard Foundation fan and have to read them all, Prelude to Foundation can safely be skipped In particular, I m not sure that I would recommend reading it prior to the other Foundation novels despite the fact that it s a prequel.It s not spoiling anything to briefly explain why this is In Foundation, which is reallya shorts collection than a novel despite the fact that the stories do flow very well together, Hari Seldon is already an old man The whole premise Unless you re just a die hard Foundation fan and have to read them all, Prelude to Foundation can safely be skipped In particular, I m not sure that I would recommend reading it prior to the other Foundation novels despite the fact that it s a prequel.It s not spoiling anything to briefly explain why this is In Foundation, which is reallya shorts collection than a novel...My first Asimov book, it was both wonderful and disappointing I loved the hugeness of the imagination at work here The bizarre and diverse societies of Trantor with their rituals, structures, foods, ways of living, and just the physical structure of the world itself, with multiple layers and a surface covered with sand and the occasional forest, made for fun reading As for the disappointments, although it is probably a clich at this point, I could not stand the squareness of the dialogue, th My first Asimov book, it was both wonderful and disappointing I loved the hugeness of the imagination at work here The bizarre and diverse societies of Trantor with their rituals, structures, foods, ways of living, and just the physical structure of the world itself, with multiple layers and a surface covered with sand and the occasional forest, made for fun reading As for the disappointments, although it is probably a clich at this point, I could not stand the squareness of the dialogue, the clumsy yet regular attempts at sexual innuendo, and the thinness of some all of the characters Also, and probablyfrustrating for me, was how the protagonist, a supposedly brilliant mathematician we are never privy as to why s or how s of his brilliance develops psychohistory, the in my opinion unfortunately named...Universe This really wasn t that bad in fact I enjoyed it quite a lot but it was very disappointing It is an entirely different kind of book to Foundation, which was about concepts Not amazingly written, certainly, but neither was this, and without the great concepts, there s not a huge amount left.I think it would be a bit harsh to say that this book was written to cash in on the phenomenon that was Foundation, though I suspect that is part of it What probably happened is that Asimov realised tha This really wasn t that bad in fact I enjoyed it quite a lot but it was very disappointing It is an entirely different kind of book to Foundation, which was about concepts Not amazingly written, certainly, but neither was this, and without...Muy bueno Quiz s al comienzo pueda percibirse un poco densa la historia pero vale la pena terminar el libro, del capitulo Billibotton en adelante se pueden empezar a sacar algunas conclusiones El desenlace final es genial, me gust mucho Ciclo de la Fundaci n o Ciclo de Tr ntor Prelude to Foundation Preludio a la Fundaci n Primera precuela a la serie de la Fundaci n Hari Seldon esboza las bases de la psicohistoria y queda atrapado en un Muy bueno Quiz s al comienzo pueda percibirse un poco densa la historia pero vale la pena terminar el libro, del capitulo Billibotton en adelante se pueden empezar a sacar algunas conclusiones El desenlace final es genial, me gust mucho Ciclo de la Fundaci n o Cic...Well, wasn t this a dreadful little book It s been decades since I read any Asimov, but I remember him with fondness for the the original Foundation trilogy I read in the late 70s, along with several of his other novels.I do, however, have no recollection of his narrative style whatsoever After finishing this travesty, that actually scares the shit out of me for considering the other nine books in this series.Prelude to Foundation reads like it was written by a somewhat over intelligent twelve Well, wasn t this a dreadful little book It s been decades since I read any Asimov, but I remember him with ...Finally After all these years I have finished the first book of Foundation What exactly took me so long, I will never know I really enjoyed this work, it s high quality SF, with all the societal elements inserted in it, all the questions about humanity posed and all of the wonders of the possible future bestowed on the reader Brilliant for someone who loves the genre and I most certainly am in love with science fiction, it sparks the imagination in a completely different way than any ot Finally After a...

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27 November 2018

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