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| Original Title: | Prelude to Foundation |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Foundation (Publication Order) #6, Foundation (Chronological Order) #1, Foundation Universe , more |
| Characters: | Hari Seldon, Cleon I, Dors Venabili, Jenarr Leggen, Rogen Benastra, Endor Levanian |
Isaac Asimov
Paperback | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 4.12 | 63246 Users | 1519 Reviews
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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire. . .the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.
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| Title | : | Prelude to Foundation (Foundation (Publication Order) #6) |
| Author | : | Isaac Asimov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | August 22nd 1994 by Voyager (first published May 1988) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 63246 Users | 1519 ReviewsPiece About Books Prelude to Foundation (Foundation (Publication Order) #6)
This really wasn't that bad - in fact I enjoyed it quite a lot - but it was very disappointing. It is an entirely different kind of book to Foundation, which was about concepts. Not amazingly written, certainly, but neither was this, and without the great concepts, there's not a huge amount left.I think it would be a bit harsh to say that this book was written to cash in on the phenomenon that was Foundation, though I suspect that is part of it. What probably happened is that Asimov realisedI did the unthinkable when it comes to reading the Foundation series and started with Prelude (I recently also finished Forward the Foundation and have started reading Foundation). I read the book slowly during my commute, and I found myself getting progressively more annoyed with how quickly I got to and from work. I felt like the book went 0-60 in no time as it immediately set a brisk pace that it would follow for the rest of the book. I found that the flight of Hari Seldon was both exciting
What makes this book great is not so much the book itself as it is the universe in which it was placed. I have read many of Asimov's Robot short stories, but this is my first real dip into the worlds of Empire and Foundation. The dialogue is weak and the characters are flat, but I am in a way used to that from Asimov because I primarily view him as a short story writer. When you view this book as a series of interconnected short stories: one at the university, one at Mycogen, and the third at
Well, I had expected when Hari begin talking his theory of that person. Damn. This year I read the saga. I can't believe I did this year. I read a lot and other books also I've read. I hope to gain more vocabularies in the next year. :)
Some day I'm going to read the novels of Asimov's future history in story order...1 The End of Eternity (stand-alone) 19552 I, Robot (short stories) 19503 The Caves of Steel (Robot) 19544 The Naked Sun (Robot) 19575 The Robots of Dawn (Robot) 19836 Robots and Empire (Robot) 19857 The Stars, Like Dust (Empire) 19518 The Currents of Space (Empire) 19529 Pebble In The Sky (Empire) 195010 Prelude to Foundation (Foundation Prequel) 198811 Forward the Foundation (Foundation Prequel) 199112 Foundation
Finally! After all these years! I have finished the first book of Foundation. What exactly took me so long, I will never know... I really enjoyed this work, it's high-quality SF, with all the societal elements inserted in it, all the questions about humanity posed and all of the wonders of the possible future bestowed on the reader. Brilliant for someone who loves the genre - and I most certainly am in love with science fiction, it sparks the imagination in a completely different way than any
I read this when I was about 13 or 14 and loved it. Re-reading it almost ten years later lets me read it with a depth I couldn't have at 13. Asimov was such a genius, writing in the 1940's with a prophetic political and technological imagination. (Granted, this was written in the 1980's as a prequel to the books written in the 40's). He writes the dialogue with a clinical edge that really makes you feel you're hearing people from an entirely different society speaking. At the same time the
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