Forward the Foundation (Foundation Novels) |
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| Title: | Forward the Foundation (Foundation Novels) |
| Author: | Isaac Asimov |
| Publisher: | Spectra |
| Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 March, 1994 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0553565079 / 9780553565072 |
| List Price: | $7.99 |
| Amazon Price: | $7.99 |
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series, Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory while the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Reprint. K. NYT.
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• Forward The Foundation: Gratifying
15 February, 2010
Title: Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Pages: 480
Time spent on the "to read" shelf: 3 years.
Days spent reading it: 2 days.
Why I read it: I wanted to finish the last of the Foundation series that Isaac Asimov wrote.
Brief review: This is the seventh and final book in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. It was finished just before Asimov died in 1992. In the Foundation chronology it comes just after Prelude to Foundation and just before Foundation. It is really a direct sequel to Prelude to Foundation, but more importantly it is a very gratifying conclusion to the series.
Forward the Foundation chronicles the life of Hari Seldon in 10 year increments. At each decade mark something significant has happened to Hari or his plans for psychohistory. I think this book shines because it reads more like four short novels rather than one long novel (which I've commented on about Asimov's writings before). The character of Hari Seldon is fleshed out a little more, as are many of his associates and family members.
Forward the Foundation is a much better conclusion to the series than Foundation and Earth (the last book in the Foundation timeline). It struck me as almost nostalgic. This is good, because I think that the series really struggled during Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth. I think Asimov really liked the character of Hari Seldon, and so in Prelude to Foundation and this book, we catch a glimpse of a great character during some crisis moments. These crisis moments are my favorite part about the Foundation series.
This was a fitting ending to a fairly solid series. I think it fleshed out Asimov's vision of Hari Seldon who is sure to be a titan among Science Fiction fans for decades to come. Thanks Isaac, job well done. I would definitely recommend this book to Foundation fans, it was worth it.
Favorite quote: "But together...our power is awesome!" (I know, it makes no sense without context, sorry!)
Stars: 4 out of 5.
Final Word: Gratifying.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Best Outside Of The Original Trilogy
19 January, 2008
I am a huge Asimov fan, but I have always been dissapointed by his later fiction, which never seems to have the life and tight plotting that his earlier stuff does. That is, untll AI read Forward the Foundation. Returning to the style of the original books, Forward the Foundation is a series of short stories, each separated by ten years, rather than a single narrative. And much like in the originals, it work very well.
I guess what I like most about the book is the way it ties up loose end left after Prelude to the Foundation. It also seems more in the spirit of the original than the other prequels and sequels. The characters all shine here, as is typical for any Asimov work. Particularly good in my opinion is the characterization of Emperor Cleon, who trun out to be a rather likable person after all.
Maybe not the best book to just pick up, but certainly a fitting end to the Foundation series and Asimov's brilliant career.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Readable, But Not That Good
05 August, 2008
Last-written in the Foundation series, this book slots in chronologically close to the beginning, explaining some lose ends and providing more detail about Hari Seldon. Still not that good, but at least well-enough written to be readable without cringing.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Kind Of A Strange Book, But Still Worth Reading
13 December, 2007
In terms of Asimov's writing, this is the last work exploring the Foundation; the copyright date is actually after his death. However, in terms of the Foundation chronology, it comes early on in the series of novels exploring the Foundation and Second Foundation. Over the past few months, I have felt a need to go back and reread the Asimov works again (it's been quite awhile since I last read these), and this review is one of the byproducts of that.
As some have noted, there is something of a contradiction here. By the time the Foundation series ends (with "Foundation and Earth"), the Foundation is kaput in terms of the future, and Galaxia is to take its place. So, to make his last novel a Hari Seldon novel is a bit strange. Still and all, though, this is a fascinating novel.
There are a couple other books that link the Robot series with the Foundation series. In some senses, this represents the apogee of that linkage, as we see in the first part of the novel, "Eto Semerzel." This character is a top advisor to King Cleon I, one of the last competent royals of the already declining Empire. And, oh boy, what a link is revealed in this segment to the Robot series.
There are three other main episodes, one focusing on Cleon himself; one is entitled "Dors Venabili"; the final part is "Wanda Seldon." Then, a very brief epilogue representing Hari Seldon's last moments. The varying parts of this novel are not seamlessly welded together. However, by the end of his career, Asimov was capable of creating characters (compare with the essentially lifeless, cardboard figures of the original Foundation trilogy). As a result, this work is fascinating in that it is also an index of Asimov's growth as a writer. He went from an academic teaching Chemistry (if memory serves) to a pretty skilled author.
Anyhow, the work is not tightly pulled together, but it is fascinating in its character development, its place in the Foundation series, its linking of the Robot series to the Foundation series. Surely not the best of the Foundation series, but one of the most intriguing.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not Free Sf Reader
03 August, 2007
The last of Asimov's Foundation books, and the second of his Seldon prequels.
Forward the Foundation : Eto Demerzel - Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation : Cleon I - Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation : Dors Venabili - Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation : Wanda Seldon - Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation : Epilogue - Isaac Asimov
Seldon is robot replacement.
3.5 out of 5
Removing the boss.
3 out of 5
My wife's a dead robot killer.
3.5 out of 5
Another one bites the dust, lucky I have a useful granddaughter.
3 out of 5
Looking back.
3 out of 5
- Amazon Customer Review
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