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Foundation by Isaac Asimov 296 pages. Rating: Five Paws out of Five Paws Genre: Adventure Classics Science Fiction Foundation- It's one of the greatest sience-fiction novels ever written, and it was written by the one and only Isaac Asimov. It was published first in 1951, and has remained a beloved classic for nearly six decades. However, many people now a days have not read it, and that's a shame in my opinion. I guess it kind of came, had it's share of readers, and slipped into the background for a long time. That doesn't mean no one reads it anymore. As with most great books, it never really vanishes from the public eye. My dad read it in high school, and recommended it to me a couple months ago. So, I decided to put it on my agenda for future reading, but the next day I was in the school library and I saw it on the shelf. Guess what? I checked it out, started it that day, and read 80 pages on the first day. It was absorbing! Foundation takes place in the distant future, ruled by a Galactic Empire. But one man, Hari Seldon, who invents psychohistory (basically the prediction of a large group's future), predicts that the Galactic Empire will fall and the galaxy will turn to barbarianism for thirty thousand years. He does not propose a way to stop it, but a way to instead preserve the knowledge humans have learned over millions of years: put it all in a gigantic encyclopedia. The empire disagrees and bans Seldon and his ideas to a planet at the far reaches of the galaxy. Hari Seldon doesn't give up, though, and sets up the Foundation: a civilization where knowledge is put into a giant book known as The Encyclopedia Galactica. But will the Foundation survive on a planet with limited resources, set at the edge of the galaxy, and surrounded by barbarian planets fighting for control? Will it last long enough to start a second empire? It's all a part of Hari Seldon's predictions, and Asimov's masterpiece. Read Foundation if you wish to follow the foundation as it struggles to survive and adapt in a world of chaos and barbarianism. All in all, at the end of this book, you'll be wanting more. It's that good! |
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 09:21 PM Michael Montgomery
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