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Summary: Greats cast of characters
Review: Great cast of characters. I like the way he works the robots into the plot. nice plot. also he has a nice plot but no as good as Assmove's plot.
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Summary: New point of view
Review: Greg Bear manages to fix Gregory Benfords' horrible 'Foundation's Fear'.This is a wonderfull book and Bear, evidently, has studied his Asimov. Thank god the only mention of the sims is only to correct their existence. This book takes place during the inmediate time before the Foundation original trilogy starts. The last chapters of the book show Seldon's side of what happens to Gaal Dornick during the starting chapters of Asimov's Foundation. This book makes you want to go back and start from A1 with Asimovs' Foundation trilogy. I definitly recomend this book to any of his fans.
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Summary: Closest to Asimov's Foundation of them all.
Review: Greg Bear was able to catch all of the style and story told by Asimov in his books. It is very well written and reads like Forward the Foundation. Sometimes it feels as if you reading yet another Asimov's book. Other two books produce no significant impact on your imagination and sometimes wander off from the idea set by Asimov. Despite that, Bear was able to connect both quite seamlessly. While I really do recommend reading Foundation and Chaos, I do not recommend even to try reading Foundation's Fear as it doesn't make sense and it is hard to understand what is going on. As for Foundation's Triumph - not necessary to be read for completion of Foundation and Chaos.
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Summary: Done Amazingly well despite all Odds
Review: Greg Bear was given a very difficult assignment. He was asked to contiue the work of one of the best Science Fiction writers. That in and of it self was complicated, but he had an added hardship. He was to contiue from the book Gregory Benford complely botched up. Greg Bear did an amazing job. Although not perfect he did immitate Asimov's writing style, and maintained the feel of an asimov story. He also incorpirated Benford's story in it while keeping the Asimov flavor. I am very impressed!
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Summary: Bear lives up to the Foundation name
Review: Having read the entire array of what I term the Asimov Universe (I Robot through Foundation and Earth) twice, this is a series that I consider one of the essential science fiction works. While I must admit that I was somewhat dissappointed in Gregory Benford's foray into the Foundation universe, the same cannot be said for Bear's latest effort. Bear avoids merely filling in the gaps once left to readers' imaginations by Asimov - he breathes a new life into the characters and places that readers have enjoyed and treasured for decades. I found myself reading what I could believe were Asimov's words, his wit, his characterization - but all of this was coming from Bear's pen. The story is excellent, well written. The characters we have come to admire, despise, and respect are wonderfully portrayed. The epic quality of Asimov is preserved. A must read for all Foundation fans. Something that I can believe Asimov would take pride in.
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Summary: excellent book
Review: i do not normally read science fiction but i picked this up and couldn't put it down. it will keep you reading right up to the end and then frustrate you because now you want to know more. waiting for the next in the series to continue reading. i recomend this book to those who love to read.to those who don't i still recomend it because it will create an interest in reading.
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Summary: Ah, definitely a sigh of relief due here
Review: I hate repeating what has been said in the other reviews, but let's be honest and admit that FOUNDATION'S FEAR by Gregory Benford was abysmal, and this book by Greg Bear has done much to get back on track. I did groan a bit when the sims, Joan of Arc and Voltaire, came back in it, but Bear got stuck with them thanks to Benford's bizarre plotting, and did what he could with them. Basically, this deals with Hari Seldon's trial and the conflict between two factions of robots, those who identify with Susan Calvin, the pioneer in Robotics, and those who identify with the legendery R. Daneel Olivaw. Throw in a couple of mentalists at odds with each other, and you have a rather good Foundation novel. Read FOUNDATION'S FEAR if you think you must, but it's not necessary because this far better written second novel stands well by itself.
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Summary: AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Review: I have read and loved all of the Foundation and Robot series books. This one is up there with the best. It is significantly better that the last book. I think the author seamlessly incorporated all of Asimov's style and ideas into this book. I hope that the next book will be as good.
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Summary: Foundation Triology review
Review: I have read both Foundation's Fear and Foundation and Chaos. They are different but equal in all respects. Foundation's Fear provides rich characters and fleshes out Hari in a way Asimov could not do because of his style. Foundation and Chaos brought us close again to the world of Asimov with his robots. I have been a fan of asimov since the early 60's and thoughly enjoyed both book but in different ways. I noticed a number of reviews seem to discount Foundation's Fear because it strayed from the Asimov style. Dispite this, or maybe because of it, it is still a very good story. It caused me to like and understand Hari. If you van begin to like and understand Hari you will enjoy the original Asimov all the more. Just as likeing and understanding Susan Calvin is necesary to enjoying the robots. I recommend them both to the readers but warn that without reading the original asimove they would be missing a lot.
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Summary: trivial, boring, bears worst
Review: I like greg bear and have read nearly everything he's written. This is without a doubt the least entertaining of his books I've encountered. I also read the first book of this series -Gregory Benfords' Foundations Fear' and which (I thought) was dynamite. Benford fleshed out Asimovs universe, expanded Hari Seldons character and a lot happened in that book. Bear goes retro on us and seems to try and capture what Asimov was doing when he wrote the foundation books. He shrinks Benfords sparkling new universe, and nothing much happens in his book. I know Asimov was one of the greats but he was a conceptual genius. His books were not big on character development or plotting. Frankly if he came on the scene today he would not be well known. The purpose of this series was not so much to reprise Asimovs' Foundation Universe as it was to update it. Bear has missed the point, buy Foundations Fear, look for David Brins next installment but skip this one.
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