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Summary: Great Plot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This has to have one of the best plots ever. UNfortunately my friend spoiled for me by saying "yeah the second foundation is on ******** ." Even going to the book knowing that there where still some suprises. The book keeps on the edge of your seat till the last sentence od the last page.
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Summary: SURPRISES AT EVERY CHAPTER!
Review: This is a really great book.Of course, you should read Foundation and Foundation and Empire first to understand the plot better. The second part of this book(search by the Foundation) follows Arcadia, preffered to be called Arkady, as she travels and finds out where the Socond Foundation is (or so she thinks). Her father is also working on the subject. Just a few words( they won't really spoil you the ending) DON'T READ THE LAST PAGE UNTIL YOU REALLY GET TO IT! I did and it spoiled me all the fun, especially the last two words, if ya know what I mean.Read it from begining to end. Also(you'll know when you read it) don't trust Anthor! I will not tell why, you'll have to read it by yourself. The book has many surprises, espacially in the last two chapters (The answer that satisfied and The answer that was true).They really give you different viewpoints! In all, I think it's a very good book full with surprises from begining to end---- which is not here yet!
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Summary: Great - Worth Rereading Again & Again !!!!
Review: This is the 3rd of trilogy, and the one I just finished. I rarely read books twice, but I look forward to rereading these.
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Summary: A worthy yet over-the-top finale
Review: This is the final book in the original Foundation trilogy.With the advent of the Mule, the Foundation is set off from the Seldon plan irreversibly. Or is it? The second book ends with a theory that the Second Foundation established by Seldon, is one consisting of the scientists using Seldon's own method of mathematical psychology. As such, it would make it a natural complement to the physical scientists of the First Foundation. However, very little is known about the Second Foundation and they haven't shown their face in all the centuries of the Foundation history. Do they exist? Do they have the power of Seldon's psychology? Are they the true keepers of the Plan or are they the enemy? This novel details the search for the Second Foundation - whatever that entity happens to be. There are two books: the first detailing the Mule's own search for the Second Foundation (to destroy it and thus establish his supreme dominion of the Galaxy) and the second, detailing the search by some people from the Foundation itself (by which time, it is seen as a hostile force from the Foundation's perspective). I found the second book to be better, but, while enjoyable, they both suffer from a flaw missing from the previous Foundation novels. The others were concerned largely with physical force and even at that were pretty packed with conspiracies, double-crossing and the like. Because the Second Foundation deals with the mind, these elements escalate to the point where I though it was a bit too arbitrary. The climaxes of both books are a bit like a wild goose chase, where the reader's conception of the situation is shattered and a new one built up in its place several times over within a few pages. It seems a bit over-the-top. Still, a great finish to the trilogy. It's still a very entertaining novel and other than that flaw, it has the great mega-epic quality of the others: a whole civilisation's essence is epitomised in a few hundred pages. The book ends on a quite unresolved note, hundreds of years away from the projected establishment of the Second Empire, but it's the potential uncertainty that I liked (a good thing for the purists who don't accept the later Foundation novels as being in the spirit!). It certainly wraps up the whole basis of what the Plan was/is and why things happened like they did (although, of course, it doesn't fully satisfy by a longshot). This makes it a worthy ending to the monumental trilogy.
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Summary: Everything seems to be explained?
Review: This is the last part of the trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) where everything seems to be explained. Asimov could stop the Foundation series right here. However, there were still too many things unanswered. If you want to find out what was REALLY going on, read Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth as well as the robot series The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.
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Summary: Third of the Foundation series.
Review: This novel, as with the other two original Foundation novels, were written in the 1950's and are thus considered relatively safe novels.
They are from the Golden Age of sci-fi and do seem a bit dated in todays world.
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Summary: The Search for the Second Foundation
Review: This volume of The Foundation Series is my favorite of the entire set. The First Foundation, sent out to survive the fall of the Empire, now faces an insidious enemy. The Second Foundation may have originally been set up by Seldon to influence and maintain the plan, but now they are undoubtedly corrupted by a mindchanging influence. The plot takes many delightful twists and turns, making this a masterful mystery as well as a good sci-fi tale.
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Summary: The return of the psychohistorians
Review: _Second Foundation_ is the third book in the original Foundation trilogy, and addresses the problem of what happens to the Seldon plan once the first foundation is aware that the second foundation exists. First the Mule goes searching for it, and then in the post-Mule era the people of Foundation search for a way to escape its influence. For me, this was the weakest of the three books, not the best note on which to end a trilogy. I think that the character of Arkady herself was an influencer in my opinion-- she seemed a pale shadow of Bayta Darrell (her illustrious grandmother from the second book) and I found her annoying rather than captivating. But that's a taste thing, and it's still Asimov, which is generally enough said to make a good review.
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