Continuing on from Prelude to Foundation. We finally begin to see Trantor in decline and Hari trying to hold the Psychohistory project together.
It’s hard to say much about this novel without spoiling the plot completely. But, it is good and is an absolute must read before embarking on the original Foundation novels.
And that’s exactly where we go next, to Foundation.
The book that introduces us to Hari Seldon and Psychohistory, and also the further adventures of robots.
This was written after all the main Foundation novels in order to give some much needed background and context to Hari Seldon, Psychohistory and the fall of the Galactic Empire.
It’s mostly a good old chase around Trantor, the centre of the Galactic Empire, with everyone hunting Hari in order to control the results of Psychohistory.
Super good and super engaging. Another great story from a master story teller.
And this leads straight into Forward the Foundation.
The third and last of the Empire novels and finally we get to Trantor as a galactic empire.
This time we’re back on the radio-active Earth sometime in the far flung future.
Earthers are still despised throughout the galaxy but one group of Earthers have a plan to sort all the rest of the galaxy out and finally put them in their place.
But an archeologist arrives on Earth with a few weeks to kill before the rest of his team turn up and goes off to see the sights. On his travels he stumbles into the plot and all kinds of troubles erupt.
Another good story from Isaac, but once again, i’m left wondering how Homo sapiens are ever going to achieve any of this galactic stuff when all we can think to do is to fuck each other over at every opportunity.
And so all that’s left now is to dive into the Foundation books, beginning with Prelude to Foundation.
Bring it on…
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