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Loading... Prelude to Foundation (Foundation Novels)by Isaac AsimovSeries: Foundation - Publication (6), Foundation - Chronological (1), Robot/Foundation (9), Foundation and Robot (9)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  maketest | Aug 26, 2009 |  Amazing, simply amazing. For readers who are not familiar with Asimov, this book may seem a bit long. However, "Prelude to Foundation" is great for science-fiction/"galatical" fans. Two thumbs up!! gbaucicaut | Jun 30, 2009 | This prequel for the "Foundation Series" is the story of Hari Seldon, the creator of psychohistory, the science that allows him to predict actions and development of the Galactic Empire. Seldon and colleague Dors Venabili have to escape the minions of the Galactic Emperor and sometimes the novel is really more of an adventure story than SF. Only towards the end one of Asimov's recurrent themes appears: robots and their relationship to humans. Good read! (  )1  DieterBoehm | May 27, 2009 | This is the first book I've read by Asimov, no particular reason why I started picking up this particular series. I'm familiar with I, Robot and the robot laws he devised but after reading this novel I'm finding Asimov to be much more interesting of a read on a different human pyschological/political bent. This particular book was written well after the first Foundation which I just recently started reading. It's interesting to see how much easier it is to build upon our own hind-sighted creations when we've had time to think about our lot over time. Based on what I've read with Preludes, it seems Asimov creates a universe that was totally representative of the times he wrote in. I expect more of the same as I continue the series. (  ) palmer73 | Apr 10, 2009 | Written well after the original Foundation novels, Prelude to Foundation is one of two prequels. The book ties in nicely with Robots and Empire, as well as the other robot novels. Its a good book too, with its 460ish pages only taking a few days to read (I think I knocked it over in about four days). The story is sufficiently engaging that I kept looking up and discovering that I had read another 100 pages. There are also a couple of twists in the book (I count three in fact), only two of which I had figured out before the characters. A good book. Probably better than Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire, and definitely better than Allen's Caliban trilogy (Caliban, Inferno, and Utopia). http://www.stillhq.com/book/Isaac_Asi... ( ) mikal | Nov 15, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385233132, Hardcover)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 know forever after as the Foundation. From the Paperback edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Not such an easy process, and he gets married along the way, as well as dodging more than one violent attempt on their persons. Luckily, the spousal unit is handy with a blade, as far as this goes.
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