Le Cycle de Fondation, Tome 1 : Le déclin de Trantor
by Isaac Asimov
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I finally made time to read this collection and I am so glad I did. It's a bit eerie to think that he projected dtaes for somethings that have already happened. Creepier still that some of predictions are so close to the possible realities of the near future.
Prélude à Fondation s’avère une grosse déception pour les amoureux de la saga asimovienne : Laborieux et souvent ennuyeux, un roman construit sur un faux suspense et des péripéties artificielles avec un Hari Seldon mal dégrossi qui passe son temps à se cacher de ses poursuivants. Certes, les révélations finales replacent le roman au cœur de la saga Robots/Fondation et parviennent presque à corriger certaines incongruités liées à des romans mineurs sur la période pré-impériale, mais ça ne suffit pas à le rendre attrayant ou palpitant.
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Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, on January 2, 1920. His family emigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where they owned and operated a candy store. Asimov became a naturalized U.S. citizen at the age of eight. As a youngster he discovered his talent for writing, producing his first original fiction at show more the age of eleven. He went on to become one of the world's most prolific writers, publishing nearly 500 books in his lifetime. Asimov was not only a writer; he also was a biochemist and an educator. He studied chemistry at Columbia University, earning a B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. In 1951, Asimov accepted a position as an instructor of biochemistry at Boston University's School of Medicine even though he had no practical experience in the field. His exceptional intelligence enabled him to master new systems rapidly, and he soon became a successful and distinguished professor at Columbia and even co-authored a biochemistry textbook within a few years. Asimov won numerous awards and honors for his books and stories, and he is considered to be a leading writer of the Golden Age of science fiction. While he did not invent science fiction, he helped to legitimize it by adding the narrative structure that had been missing from the traditional science fiction books of the period. He also introduced several innovative concepts, including the thematic concern for technological progress and its impact on humanity. Asimov is probably best known for his Foundation series, which includes Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. In 1966, this trilogy won the Hugo award for best all-time science fiction series. In 1983, Asimov wrote an additional Foundation novel, Foundation's Edge, which won the Hugo for best novel of that year. Asimov also wrote a series of robot books that included I, Robot, and eventually he tied the two series together. He won three additional Hugos, including one awarded posthumously for the best non-fiction book of 1995, I. Asimov. "Nightfall" was chosen the best science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. In 1979, Asimov wrote his autobiography, In Memory Yet Green. He continued writing until just a few years before his death from heart and kidney failure on April 6, 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Le Cycle de Fondation, Tome 1 : Le déclin de Trantor
- Original title
- Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation
- Alternate titles*
- Prélude à Fondation, L'Aube de Fondation, Fondation
- People/Characters*
- Hari Seldon; Eto Demerzel; Cleon I
- Important places*
- Trantor: Imperial Sector
- Quotations*
- Mieux vaut encore fabriquer un bon avenir qu'en prédire un mauvais.
- Disambiguation notice
- This is an omnibus including : Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation. Please not combine with any of the individual volumes.
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