Rating: 
Summary: Gives a reasonably good end to the series
Review: I have to start by saying, read Asimov's "End of Eternity". It is by far his best SF work and may be the best SF novel I've ever read.I think a lot of the reviews have been unduly harsh on Foundation and Earth. I thought this book was engaging and had a pretty good end that has me excited to go read the robot and empire novels. Also, while the book really gave an end to the series in a meaningful way, it did leave open a possible future story that the Asimov estate could allow someone to write.
Rating: 
Summary: Going downhill
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the Foundation Series and many novels in the accompanying Robot saga. But the sequels to the series do not - or cannot - measure up to the original. Maybe the story has been done and it is increasingly difficult to introduce new material. For the Series itself, the Mule and the location of the Second Foundation were welcome diversions. Then there is the entire drama of the robots and their universe. But at some point you have to say, "enough is enough". The same boring characters that were in the previous work are back and boring as ever. I can put up with the lack of character development if there is a simultaneous introduction of new ideas but that is not the case here. Their journeys are boring, their findings are boring, the writing is boring. I started skipping pages to find something "interesting". At times the writing is almost like that done by machines - as if word after word were mechanically produced on a "need to be" basis. Wish I could say something more positive but I can't.
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