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Summary: Asimov has got the stuff!
Review: Awesome! The way this book evolves and ties us up in its net and then, at the end, just slaps us in the face with its astounding finale! I even think that it's worth reading just for its end... Really, just order it, or run to your local bookstore, because you gotta have this baby! Go get it, and be amazed.
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Summary: Great Book But...
Review: This book is great! I really liked the way there were many different worlds where Seldon traveled to...But what I can't understand is the chronological order of the 6 old Foundation novels. Can someone please send me an email (why2k68@aol.com) as to how they are chronologically placed.
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Summary: A Really Great Book
Review: I think that this is one of the best books ever. It has great twists and no one ever suspects what is going to happen next. But the last two pages are the best two pages of a book that i've ever read!
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Summary: Best In The Series
Review: I have recently (1999)read the Foundation series novels (no small undertaking I might add)and found this book (the last one written but the first in the series) to be the absolute best novel of Asimov's career. It is intriguing to read the first 5 novels in the series, and then to read this one. It shows Asimov's coming of age as an incredible Science Fiction author. The book is well crafted, keeps the reader focused, and moves along at a break neck pace (for Asimov anyway). All in all, I would say that this book should be ranked as a crowning achievement within the science fiction community and read by those fans who also enjoy Frank Herbert's Dune, J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings series, and Orson Scott Card's Ender series. Read and enjoy all!
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Summary: After the robots before the Foundation
Review: This book, Forward the Foundation and Foundation and Earth are connecting the robot series (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire) with the Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation). Still I would recommend first to read the robot novells and the Foundation Trilogy.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST SCI-FI EVER
Review: Althoug this book is called "Prelude" it should probably be read after all his other foundation and robot books, in order to appreciate all the tie-ins. I have read almost all of Asimov's novels, and this one is easily one of the best. The last fifty pages are incredible.
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Summary: Chetter Hummin is cool!
Review: You must read this. It is a fascinating adventure through the master, Asimov's mind. Chetter Hummin is cool. That's all I have to say.
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Summary: Exciting and astonishing SF at its best.
Review: Asimov keeps topping himself. A exciting story with belivible characters and imaginative and clever points. Wery well tied up with earlier stories as well as later. We get to know Hari Seldon as a real person, not as a distant legend as in the earlier foundation novells.
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Summary: Decent, but not as good as Foundation
Review: The book start off great. There are a lot of possibilities about what may happen with Seldon and how Psychohistory comes about. But, unfortunately, most of it doesn't pay off. I kept expecting psychohistory to evolve during this novel, but in fact it doesn't at all! Seldon keeps insisting that it is an impractical science up until the last 10 pages of the book when he finally admits it may be possible. But then still explains no reasoning behind it. I admit that I haven't read the Robot novels, and therefore may not have appreciated the tie-ins at the end. But, nevertheless, this book just didn't feel like science fiction. I would recommend skipping this book and reading Foundation first.
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Summary: Full-bodied, with an entire world as a character.
Review: Asimov's prelude to the Foundation trilogy is a complete and well detailed journey throughout a world of 40 billion, dealing with complex issues and splendidly bizarre cultures in the early years of Hari Seldon's study of Psychohistory. On Trantor, the capital planet of a Galactic Empire with as many planets under its power as there are people on it's surface, a little known mathematician is thrown into galactic intrigue and a run for his life when his research is sought out by those who must not be allowed to obtain it. Literally a page turner, and a requirement for those who love science fiction.
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