Foundation and Empire

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Summary: Terrific, Exciting, Suspending and Surprising
Review: This book is really great. It consists of two stories. Bothe stories invovle Hari Seldon's theory and promise that the Foundation will last forever against threatning enemies. The first stroy is about an Emperial general who threatens the Foundation, but obviously lose, since Hari Seldon's plan can not be changed. The ending gives the reader a broad prespective on Hari Seldon's plan and theory. I would rate the first stroy as very good. The second story is even better. This time the Foundation is threatened by a mutant, and the Foundationa is loosing. You must read the second story, which is EXCELLENT, juts for the surprising and excellent ending!

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Summary: Fantastic - Deserves a Movie Version !!!
Review: This book was almost perfect. It was actually better than the stellar first book (Foundation), which was also great. I just hope that we will one day get to see a 'Big Budget' movie series on the Foundation Series. But the stories are so good that they don't need the hype (but a movie would be fun).

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Summary: Important Fact To Know
Review: In response to the reader from San Fransisco who gave this book a 3, they should know that the reasons the characters don't match up is because the first three foundation books were written 30 years before the last three. Furthermore they were written out of order, Foundation was the first, and the other two, Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation were written 35-40 years later. Also, the stories were not "tacked on" each of the first three books is actually a collection of connected novellas, which orignally were published seperately in magazines.

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Summary: Dissatified
Review: I was dissatisfied with this novel. Being an avid fan of Asimov and the Foundation series,the younger version of the mathimatical genius did not match with older one who changed the history of his race for the better; nor did I think that the story with female very appealing, again it did not match. The story seemed tacked on to the series just to write another novel. It is unfortunate that the writer who invented the positronic brain,the three law of robotics, and of course the genuis of the foundation series wrote such a tacked on story.

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Summary: Asimov's Best Book!
Review: In my humble opinion, this is the best Foundation book and the best overall novel that Asimov ever wrote. It's a work of genius! There are two sections of the book. The first is a seemingly typical war story of the conflict between the Galactic Empire, led by a strong emporer and a firebrand general, and the dumb-luck, mediocre leadership of the Foundation. It illustrates how, under the Seldon plan, it is virtually impossible to defeat the Foundation. The second part is just phenomenal. Word spreads of a mighty mutant, the Mule, who is conquering the galaxy with unprecedented mental powers. The Foundation is astonished when they don't beat him;the Mule is the .001% that the Seldon plan left room for and dismissed. The Foundation falls, and only a small group of hopefulls dare to go to the library of Trantor to find the Second Foundation and defeat the Mule. This book has it all;plot twists, philosophy, and colorful, memorable characters. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: The Maestro at his best.....
Review: No matter how many times I read this book, it is impossible to get tired of it. Most definitley the best Foundation book Asimov ever wrote. Two very superb stories, which show that you don't need a million word novel to produce a masterpiece.

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Summary: Another Classic that adds to the Depth of Asimov's Universe
Review: The spectacular universe created by Issac Asimov in Foundation is excellently complemented by the second in the series. From the last gasps of the dying Galactic Empire to a threat so powerful even Hari Seldon could not forsee, this story adds to the action and drama in the history of the Foundation

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Summary: Second in the Foundation series in more way than one.
Review: The Foundation series is still a classic and must read for every sci-fi reader. This novel however does get a little bizarre with its Mule character. If you like Asimov and the first novel, than you will probably like this one. But beware, it is a little different

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Summary: An amazing story by the world's greatest author
Review: <pr>In "Foundation," Asimov produces a world so real you feel you could live there and characters so great you'd vote for them, if only you could. <pr>In "Foundation and Empire," he lets a mutant psionic loose in the galaxy. The invincible foundation is overrun, the land of your beloved characters is defeated! <pr>And THAT'S just the start of the fun! This book is so well written and Asimov's universe is so well developed, you fell as if your there when the troops of "The Mule" land. You want to scream as the Foundation is defeated, and when you finish this book, you want to fly to the nearest bookstore to get the next one in the series. <pr>This story is amazing. Asimov has long been regarded as the best there is, the foundation series has long been reguarded as Asimov's best, and this book is the best of the foundation trilogy. IF you don't read it, you should never forgive yourself.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Just when you thought Asimov had done enough in Foundation by creating a believable world of the future where the movements of large amounts of people could be predicted statistically, he throws in The Mule. He therefore uproots everything he had labored to convince you of in the first book and now you can't wait for the crisis to be averted. He also masterfully pushes you on to the next novel in the series. What fun these books are!