The Foundation Trilogy (Adapted by BBC Radio) This book is a transcription of the radio broadcast

from CurrerBell

I remember reading the trilogy decades ago, probably in the mid-60s, and remember the plot pretty well. I got hold of the new Everyman edition because I like Everyman bindings and I intended to do a reread in preparation for a reread of Asimov's own sequels like Foundation's Edge, none of which I...

from bacillicide

T his is my first foray into Isaac Asimov and it's been a successful one, this trilogy has made a fan out of me! I love Asimov's writing--his characters are fleshed out and brilliant despite their frequent disappearance over a matter of chapters, sometimes pages, as time passes by fast, the chara...

from DarthDeverell

In his seminal Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov channels Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as he envisions mankind's future. Psycho-historian Hari Seldon, mathematically predicting "the developing decline and fall of the Galactic Empire" (Foundation, pg. 28),...

from kaulsu

This is one of "those" books that I wish I could read again for the first time!! I first read it in 1969 or 70. Interesting to look at the science and see what has come to pass and what seems like it never will. I'm still waiting to colonize a new system. Ah well, probably too old now!

from tungsten_peerts

I am in the middle of Foundation and Empire and I must say, this old trilogy holds up much better than I thought it would. I recall Asimov recounting how, as an adult, he went back and re-read Doc Smith's Galactic Patrol and that the sense of loss when he compared it to his childhood experience o...