Book info

• Title Foundation
• Author Isaac Asimov
• Year 1951
• Genre Science Fiction

The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate. Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy. However, the death throes of the Empire breed hostile new enemies, and the young Foundation’s fate will be threatened first.

Thoughts

I’ve had this book in my to-read list for a while, probably since the TV show first aired on Apple, but it’s taken me a while to get up the nerve to read it - it being such a classic. I liked it to start with, definitely the ideas around science versus religion, and predicting the future, and all that were very interesting. But as time went on and it drifted further away from those early chapters, it got a bit too political and a bit less interesting for me. Still, can’t question how visionary the whole thing is… and why it’s so hard for it to be adapted to other media!

Rating: 3 / 5