Prelude to Foundation (The Foundation Series)
£2.99
Entertaining, but ideologically wrong - Ok, so maybe at some time after writing the original trilogy Asimov decided everything was about robots. However, that missed what we all loved about the original trilogy - the triumph of mankind.Having said this, I found this book entertaining and easy to read. I wanted to give it a lower rating as I m ideologically opposed to what Asimov did with his own series. Its hard to stand by and let an author interfere with a story that you love.
Return to the Foundation ... - Having read the Foundation trilogy in my teens, I was interested to find Prelude on a book stall at a school fete. Reading it has fired up my appetite to reacquaint myself with the Epic (no longer a trilogy) but by starting at the beginning and working forward. Maybe Foundation could become the new Lord of the Rings. Who knows? And who would be brave enough to take Hari on? We wait and see ..........
Prelude to Foundation - After hearing, for years, the hype about the epic Foundation Series I read this book with high expectation. At first it struck me as being rather quaint, and not what I expected from a galaxy sprawling epic, yet non the less kept me enthralled in its own special way. The summation is fantastic and only upon reading futher into the series do you realise the full scale of what has been invoked in this volume. It also expands upon the character of Hari Seldon, which is much appreciated after the fleeting glimpses we get of the man throught the other Foundation novels. We get to meet the man behind the plan, and see that even great prophets have human frailties and reservations like the rest of us.A fine place to start with the series and worth your time...
The Greatest Book Ever Written - In literary terms i feel this book far surpasses the other Foindation novels which are tremendous books in their own right . It has all the suspense of a holiday thriller with the ability to surprise you better than any of them.
hmmm? - When I was young I loved Isaac Asimov s robot stories. He played around with the three laws of robotics to create some extremely clever logical short stories. I read Prelude without having read any of the other Foundation novels and I have to admit that the concept of psychohistory is utterly unbelievable and does a disservice to the robot short stories. I was going to give this a two star, but for some reason the book is very hard to put down and I don t think I ll be able to resist reading the rest in the series.