Things have been going too well and in-line with the Seldon plan. That must mean we are being controlled by the second foundationers? That is the premise of this book and more importantly Asimov introduces some wacky Gaia mystique elements that supersede the foundations. One man has to make a decision to either go with the first foundation or second foundation visions of the world. I think it was an interesting premise but it felt flat after finishing the book. It’s unfortunate Asimov will never tie those loose ends.

Met recht een klassieker!

This is a must read for any science fiction I say this for not only this book but for the entire foundation series (maybe 6 books) most of them are short books but the level of detail and the quality of the storyline and characters are excellent. I could not put the books of the foundation series down

I’m always disappointed in Asimov. I think the part of his writing that bothers me the most is that his books are entirely dialogue. There’s almost no action or description at all. Also I listened to this and the narrator Scott Brick is my nemesis. I despise his sing song reading style but if you put it on 2x it’s just bearable for this book. Anyhow the dialogue is mostly just logical arguments. Makes Asimov sound like a college boy trying to prove how smart he is at a party by doing logic debate. Also even in the 80s Asimov is (by all appearances unintentionally) terribly sexist. The only women in the book (and at least there ARE women here) are archetypes. The old battle ax, the pathetic idolizing ingenue, the sex bomb, and the shrew. Ugh. But the overall plot doesn’t suck. Could have been 50 pages if the redundant dialogue was left out.

Gaia ahh gaia...

Bir kitapta finali okurken kafamdaki kurgu tutsun ya. Çok sey mi istiyorum. 😊

Heyecanla ilerliyorum bakalım.

I don’t really know how to score this book.
I have problems with the original trilogy that I don’t have with this book. But I also have problems with this fourth book in the series that Indidn’t have with the originals.
One thing is that the characters are still very flat. The women even more so than the men. I would almost say that i had rather read a book without female characters, then badly written and developed ones.
Again there is not much world building and not much in the way of Big Ideas either. Where the other books atleast had Psychohistory and the Seldon Plan as the Big Ideas, this book abandones those as ideas completely. Instead we get a Single mind-Single organisme idea. Which isn’t really worked out and not realy Science fiction either (more speculative fiction I’d say). And we get Robots.

Overall an underwhelming experience even considering my ideas about the other books in the series.

Asimov proves again that the foundation universe has space to fit much more things to the plot. Throughout the book I was really caught in the chase of earth an how the second foundation would handle it. In the end, the feeling of needing to read the next book was unbearable.

Although, the book has some issues that really bothered me. First, unlike in most of his books, this contains many unexplained stuff. Usually, Asimov goes trough great lengths to make all piece of tech or knowledge in his books credible and "scientifically accurate". But on this book, this does not happen. For example, the gravitation ship engine, the mind control terminal and even the unexplained mind shield. That really bothered me.

Another thing that really made me sad was that many facts happened with a degree of serendipity that was not believable. Ok, I admit, the fact that Trevize could "sense" what was right was a great way out, and was very coherent. But, the facts about Earth that Pelorat describes are too much accurate to seems a long lost legend. If you go back to Prelude to Foundation you will find that information about Earth and Robots are completely lost and barely touched.

Summing up, still a great book. Let's go for the final one.