Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire
Set in the far future, Foundation envisions a Galactic Empire that has thrived for 12,000 years, but whose decline into an age of barbarism lasting some 30 millennia is imminent — if the predictions of renegade psycho-historian Hari Seldon are accurate. Hoping to shorten the interval of this impending new Dark Age, Seldon convinces the Empire's Commission of Public Safety to allow him to enact a diversionary plan—one full of surprising subterfuges and intrigues intended to create and protect a Foundation on which the future Empire will be erected.
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Set in the far future, Foundation envisions a Galactic Empire that has thrived for 12,000 years, but whose decline into an age of barbarism lasting some 30 millennia is imminent — if the predictions of renegade psycho-historian Hari Seldon are accurate. Hoping to shorten the interval of this impending new Dark Age, Seldon convinces the Empire's Commission of Public Safety to allow him to enact a diversionary plan—one full of surprising subterfuges and intrigues intended to create and protect a Foundation on which the future Empire will be erected.
Foundation and Empire advances the story farther into the future, in which a technologically advanced Foundation triumphs over attacking forces of the collapsing Empire. Yet even as the Foundation emerges valiantly, in fulfillment of Hari Seldon's scheme, at the far corners of the Empire a powerful mutant, whose existence was never accounted for in Seldon's projections, emerges to overwhelm the Foundation and establish his own tyrannical version of the Empire.
In Second Foundation, a new Second Foundation, whose whereabouts have been kept secret from the original Foundation for safety's sake, asserts itself as the true fulfillment of Hari Seldon's plans for the Empire—and thereby pits itself against a Foundation resentful of its usurped authority.
747 pages
English language
Published Nov. 25, 2011 by Bantam Books.
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.
Even though this book is generally considered to be Asimov's worst, also by the author himself, it was still an entertaining read
