The Foundation trilogy

No cover — Isaac Asimov: The Foundation trilogy (1982, Doubleday)

225 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1982 by Doubleday.

OCLC Number:: 13150819

Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are some of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women working to preserve humanity’s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire’s glory turns the vast imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.

But not even Hari Seldon …

Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are some of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women working to preserve humanity’s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire’s glory turns the vast imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.

But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule, a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets… a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.

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thom_reads_books reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Can't remember how it ended ...

3 stars

I'm writing this a few months after I finished the book, and to be honest, I can't remember how it ended.

So much of the action happens off screen, it's baffling. I was wondering how someone would turn this into a TV show (which I haven't seen). Oh, and there's practically no women in the story.

But I finished the book, so it couldn't have been all that bad.

I'm writing this a few months after I finished the book, and to be honest, I can't remember how it ended.

So much of the action happens off screen, it's baffling. I was wondering how someone would turn this into a TV show (which I haven't seen). Oh, and there's practically no women in the story.

But I finished the book, so it couldn't have been all that bad.

Frank reviewed The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1) by Isaac Asimov

Still entertaining

3 stars

Even though this book is generally considered to be Asimov's worst, also by the author himself, it was still an entertaining read

Subjects

Science fiction, American