Alex Keane reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #1)
Sci Fi Classic
5 stars
What if you could mathematically prove that the government was going to fail? More, what if you had magical math showing you the one path forward to limit how long chaos would reign following that fall? That's the premise for Foundation: Hari Seldon's psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and he must act to plant the seeds of the future to come to limit how long humanity will be subject to the whims of arbitrary and capricious kings splitting up the territory as the scientific knowledge of the empire is lost.
I really enjoy the separate stories of the Foundation.
I'm reading science fiction classics to get a feel for what led to the Traveller RPG right now and revisiting this one was well worth it.
Asimov isn't great at character development, the characters tend to fall off and be replaced by the next generation right as they …
What if you could mathematically prove that the government was going to fail? More, what if you had magical math showing you the one path forward to limit how long chaos would reign following that fall? That's the premise for Foundation: Hari Seldon's psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and he must act to plant the seeds of the future to come to limit how long humanity will be subject to the whims of arbitrary and capricious kings splitting up the territory as the scientific knowledge of the empire is lost.
I really enjoy the separate stories of the Foundation.
I'm reading science fiction classics to get a feel for what led to the Traveller RPG right now and revisiting this one was well worth it.
Asimov isn't great at character development, the characters tend to fall off and be replaced by the next generation right as they would need to change to meet the new times. But the situations are great and keep you engaged as you see how the history of the foundation has been carried forward by each generation.
This is honestly one of the science fiction classics that has aged pretty gracefully.
