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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780586013557
Edition: New Impression
ISBN: 0586013555
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: March 28, 1994
Publisher: Collins
Studio: Collins
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The second in Asimov's `Foundation Series' differs slightly to the first book in the fact that it is only split into two sections, with complete narratives and continuous sets of characters. However, this does not alter the pace of the storytelling and allows the reader to form longer-lasting relationships with the characters; especially in the second section. There are also the characteristic plot twists which we have gotten used to with Asimov's writing.
The second section entitled ...
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If you consider Star Wars as George Lucas's answer to Asmiov's "Foundation" then this is very much in the mode of Episode V. Asimov spent the first book building up his psychohistory paradigm just to knock it down in Foundation and Empire. A much darker and more intense book, downbeat in mood, and leading to the inevitable conclusion in Second Foundation.
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Asimov is probably the best science fiction writer to date, and the foundation series is in my opinion his finest series of books. Any science fiction fan in my opinion will love the entire foundation series including this book.
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Ultimately, the hardest decision about the Foundation books is to decide the order in which to read them. Maybe I'm being ridiculous, but I think you will enjoy them more if you read them in the order they were written. If so, this is the second book. If you have not yet read Foundation, then you need to go back and do so before tackling this one.
Your other choice is to read the prequels first, then go onto Foundation. In that case, this is the fourth book you should read.
Whichever ...
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I totally liked the pattern that Isaac Asimov established in "Foundation," the first volume in what we know refer to as the original Foundation trilogy. Hari Seldon created the revolutionary science of psychohistory and mapped out a future for humanity that would allow thirty thousand years of barbarism between the existing galactic empire and the future one to be reduced to only one thousand years. Through the effort of the psychohistorians the Foundation was established with its encyclopedists. Then we ...
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