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Summary: Riding on the coat tails of a classic
Review: I had no great expectations of this book, seeking fame and fortune from the tremendous success of the trilogy. My expectations were on target. This book was a "good" piece of science fiction but had no real relevance to the timeless classic of the trilogy. If anything, it had a destructive influence on the whole concept of the Hari Seldon visualization. Stick to the trilogy and ignore other books with Foundation in the title. Asimov has many other unconnected titles that are excellent in themselves.
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Summary: This book should not carry the Foundation name.
Review: The book, although having Foundation in its title, was written long after the original series, and does not have the feel of being part of the Foundation series. It feels more like a desperate attempt at linking Foundation with the rest of the Asimov universe. I think the worst part is that I liked the Foundation concept as presented by Hari Seldon in the first three books. The Foundation was not perfect, but that imperfection was part of the Seldon Plan and would eventually lead to a great new galaxy, under the Foundation government. This book gave me the feeling that Seldon's Foundation lost. Not a good way to write a book. I finished the book angry at Asimov for destroying the "Foundation" concept. And I will not read Foundation and Earth because of it. My advise is stop with the original trilogy.
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Summary: One of the finest books in the Foundation series.
Review: This book is very different from the previous books in the foundation series. In this book the first foundation seeks to once again destroy the second. But one man of the first F, Golan Trevize is sent on a mission. The mission is to find The mysterious planet of origin: Earth!
This leads to a mysterious planet called Gaia, and the possible destruction of the Seldon Plan!
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Summary: One of the bests
Review: This book is one of the best in the series. It closes a lot of unfinished corners and it brings the two foundations into one place with a bigger force You must read it.
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Summary: The First of the Anti-Foundation Series
Review: Foundation's Edge: The world's worst novel ever constructed! I say this because it destroys what was (I think was) the greatest science fiction saga ever conceived... the Foundation Saga. Asimov, must not have been himself when he ventured into this realm. For I feel he commited a Galactic Blunder of Biblical Proportions. He took, what has been hailed as the Greatest Science Fiction Series of All Time, and chose to completely re-write it after spending several thousands of pages creating the proper atomosphere in which it wouldthrive in The bigest idiot "Foundation" ("" because I do not personally consider this storyling to pretain to the goal -and therefore not to- of the Foundation theme) is Golan Travize. Why cannot he take that which has so thoroughly described by an insitefull man nearly 1/2 a milenium before on faith? Had Seldon ever knowingly lead the Foundation kin astray? Never did he! I tell you all: leave this book alone! Let it die out... let it fall into the cracks of humanity and there it will be forgotten! If you have any common sense and any attachment to the foundation... THE Foundation, and you have read through the Second Foundation S T O P ! ! ! There is nothing more for you in either Foundation's Edge or Foundation and Earth! Ironically, it was Galaxia itself, that Golan Travize saw as the "outside, nonhuman force that would invalidate psychohistory." DIE GALAXIA! "Raych Seldon"
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Summary: excellent
Review: I think the ones who rate this book below 8 do not know how to read or maybe I should have said do not know to understand what they read. As soon as I finished this book I went out to by Foundation and Earth, cause I knew that I would not be comfortable if I had not.
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Summary: THE BEST OF THE SERIES
Review: MUCH OF THE SERIES IS OUTDATED, AND SEEEMED AS IF I WAS READING SCIENCE FICTION MYTHOLOGY. FOUNDATION'S EDGE, HOWEVER IS WRITTEN WELL AND BRINGS ABOUT ANSWERS TO OTHER EPISODES
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: This book would be interesting only if you have read the foundation trilogy and are just dying for more. Otherwise, this book is just an episodic bumbling from place to place. The previous books challenged the reader to imagine a world where a very sophisticated mathematical and social science could predict the course of humanity. However, Foundations Edge does not add anything significantly new, and the empire saga begins to feel tired
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Summary: One of Asimov's first out-of-the gate bestsellers.
Review: Many of Asimov's novels have become bestsellers and very well known because they have simply been around so long.
Foundation's Edge is one of the few novels that became an immediate bestseller. It's sweeping and uniting storyline enabled it to mesh with the older Foundation novels and retain more contemporary elements.
A worthy addition to the original Foundation Trilogy.
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Summary: OK, not Exciting
Review: I thought this would be interesting as I remember reading one of the original Foundation novels. This would reveal more of what psychohistory is all about. And plus, a search for earth- I enjoy that kind of SciFi novel. But this was more a search for other things, and focusing on the two characters, Trevize and Pelorat, rather than philosophy. It was entertaining. It had a good plot that moved forward. It's just not exciting. Perhaps it's Asimov's attempt to create a universe completely void of the supernatural and the numinous. Everything is explained. There is control from outside- but the main character sees it as negative. And the control is always explainable as a natural force- not as something beyond the ken of all humanity. This leads to a somewhat depressing feeling as you delve into this manufactured universe. The final few pages give an interesting turn, unexpected. But this too, is somewhat sad, not uplifting. When the real world is more exciting and hopeful than a science fiction novel, something is wrong.
But I really did enjoy the concept of communal life envisioned in part of the book. That we are more than one thing, that we are part of a group. That the individual is not as important as we often believe them to be. Here Asimov improves, and does a very good job of understanding how a collectivist person sees reality- for there are many people on this earth in kinship societies who feel just the way those in the group society feel.
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