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I read the original Foundation Trilogy while listening to "Blonde on Blonde" and this line from "Visions of Johanna" got crossed up somehow in my mind so now when I think of Foundation, all I can see is:
"Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, ... ... in Time and A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
I also like to reread:
11. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbotf
12. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
13. Earth by David Brin
14. Kiln People by David Brin
15. Spacial Delivery by Gordon R. Dickson
16. The Familias Regnant ... ... Carr
The Heart of Boswell ed. by Mark Harris
Uhuru--Robert Ruark
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
The Foundation Trilogy--Isaac Asimov
The Winthrop Woman--Anya Seton
Bone Song--John Meaney
Origins of the Modern World--Robert B. Marks
Themes in Science Fiction ... 19. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
20. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Pace = 26.8 books / year (8734 pages / year)
I just saw that someone added McSweeney's 28 to their library, so I guess I'm going to start on McSweeney's 27. 6. Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov) ... my favorite authors, but I tried to be fair and not to exclude other authors at their expense. I did not try to
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Princess of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood†... Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov 4. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov - not quite as good as the first book, but still an interesting read. ... Mission of Gravity, Needle
Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz
Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
Bernard Wolfe's Limbo
... I've managed less than half..
Enough digression, on with the game erelsi183 how about some genre fiction for you the foundation trilogy by Iassac Asimov ... at it in a long time and have no idea if either of those books were really any good or not.
Around that time I found The Foundation Trilogy. There were three things I loved about it. One was that the cover was almost dignified, especially compared to the stuff Ace was coming out with, so I ... ... I'm sure there's still a lot of good SF being written, but it's getting hard to find it.
Bias report: I cut my teeth on The Foundation Trilogy and am pretty much of a hard-SF guy; my favorite SF author is probably Charles Sheffield. I won't even touch a book that has "Mage" in the title, ... ... Will Travel
Bradbury: Martian Chronicles
PK Dick: The Man in the High Castle
Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan
Asimov: Foundation Trilogy
Van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Something by Theodore Sturgeon, possibly The Synthetic Man
The usual stuff by Verne, Wells and Orwell ... ... Five:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 542 pages.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 789 pages.
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov 609 pages.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 529 pages.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 557 pages.
And if I ... I was a member in the mid-1960s (my mid-teens) through the early 1970s. Got the Foundation Trilogy for my membership offer. I remember getting The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Orphans of the Sky, Voyage of the Space Beagle, ... I should stop. Yes I have heard of him and have read a couple of his books.
I have:
Salt
On
Stone
The Snow
Polystom
Jupiter Magnified (Collection of Short Stories)
Non-Fiction:
Science Fiction
I have read Salt, On and Stone so far, which were the first 3 books he published (haiku anyone ? ... ... the future of the genre, even if they are not the best written. In my opinion this is the only justification for putting the Foundation trilogy and neuromancer so high on the list.
Some of the entries are series rather than books: Foundation, Cities in Flight, Thomas Covenant series 1, Bo ... I prefer Asimov's short stories to his novels.
The foundation Trilogy IS just a compilation of Asimov's short stories yaknow.
So is I Robot ... TASY.
Stranger in a Strange Land would have to be included even though I don't think much of it. Certainly Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Rendezvous with Rama is another one. I liked James Hogan's "Giants" series.
Larry Niven's Ringworld should also be on the list, although ... ... beg to differ, we do know how the universe started and we know the alternative versions of how it will end.
The original Foundation Trilogy by Asimov is actually a remodelling of the history of the Roman Empire.
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