Foundation and Empire
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- ISBN13: 9780553382587
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the fantastic masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring thoughts, and wide world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity’s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.
Led by its founding father, the fantastic psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and equipment, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious all-purpose determined to restore the Empire’s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the tiny planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.
But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule—a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets…a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.
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I despise this book. I don’t just “not like it,” I despise it! Such a terrible book. Do not read it!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What more can I say? The Mule? Give me a break. How can anyone consider this to be fantastic fiction? Go read something else….
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Just writing this to provide moral support for anyone who reads this book and is painstakingly underwhelmed.
Asimov’s prose is clean but his tone seems uneven in this installment, as opposed to the tighter first book.
The book is essentially two disconnected adventures… not very appealing.
There’s a female character in the second adventure that’s reasonably problematic; she’s dull, and Asimov spends a lot of time and effort on the fact that she’s (gasp) not male.
Finally, this series feels very dated, in terms of language, attitudes, and even vision of the future. “Nuclear” is the buzzword; everything’s like the ’50s, but nuclear-powered.
I liked Foundation but Foundation & Empire tends to wander away from the thought of the Foundation as the main character, and as a replacement for can’t seem to choose whether to focus on galactic-level events or protagonists. This would be excusable if the protagonists were appealing.
Go read Jack Vance or Gene Wolfe if you want masterful sci-fi!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I was dissatisfied with this novel. Being an avid fan of Asimov and the Foundation series,the younger version of the mathimatical genius did not match with older one who changed the history of his race for the better; nor did I reflect that the tale with female very appealing, again it did not match. The tale seemed tacked on to the series just to write another novel. It is unfortunate that the writer who invented the positronic brain,the three law of robotics, and of course the genuis of the foundation series wrote such a tacked on tale.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
It isn’t my kind of book but, I thought, I would give it a try. We read it in our book club. Some of the readers liked it, most of them didn’t. I didn’t. But, the leader did have fantastic insight to the future in the 1950 – 1960’s
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5