Forward The Foundation - Isaac Asimov
1993
Well, I finished the Foundation series. This book was tough to get through. It takes place before the events of the first Foundation novel, and after his previous book, Prelude to the Foundation. It focuses on Hari Seldon’s development of the ideas that led to the two Foundations, and Hari’s life on Trantor. This book sealed my new Law of Asimov Quality: The quality of a book written by Isaac Asimov is inversely proportional to the length of the book.
This book was long, and it wasn’t very good. I’ve said before that Asimov doesn’t do character-driven exposition, and this book is no different. Also, it was written in 1193, about 40 years after some of his best work. Overall, I liked the Foundation series, but I would recommend that people only read the original trilogy. I’m looking forward to reading sci-fi that is not about Hari Seldon.