Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
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Author: Isaac AsimovEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-01
ISBN: 0553803719
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: A Real SF Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Foundation is the first book of the outstanding Foundation Trilogy. Asimov builds drama with believable characters struggling against bureaucracies and political manipulations on a grand scale. As a central government weakens, planets often show less respect for the core authorities and go there own way, sometimes forming their own alliances. Hari Seldon, master of Psychohistory, uses Psychohistory to make predictions far into the future. Hari Seldon does more than predict outcomes--he has a plan. Seldon does not expect to alter the eventual course of huge historical events, but constructs a strategy to minimize the length of time of the darkest days for the Galactic Empire.
The emphasis of the book, and what makes the book a true science fiction classic, is the imagination that takes the reader through mind whirring possibilities for the future.
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