The final instalment!

I'm happy the way things wrapped up, it was good to come full circle. Now that I've finished reading the books in story-temporal order, I can see why there are suggestions to move the two preludes to the end of the story—it would add some suspense and mystery to Seldon that you don't get when you know everything about his work before you even get to Foundation.

All in all, even though I didn't like some of the books in the universe at all, and some only mildly; I really appreciate the scale and complexity of such a future—especially since some of this work was written in the mid 40's.

As for this book itself: it was quite enjoyable in many ways, but also somewhat lacking in others. The amount of groundbreaking discoveries the team continuously made was quite high, but only once was there even the thought of sharing such with the Foundation. Trevize may have been an outcast, but Pelorat was a scholar and would be completely vindicated by writing up some of their travels (even excluding some of the embargoes they promised). To me the absence of such deliberations were completely missing. Pelorat should have been more of a driving force than Trevize too—how they switched roles was a bit confusing. On the positive side, the mix of myth and reality was great! Trevise's deliberations, whilst sometimes gratingly combative, were quite fun to try and preempt.

I don't know what to do with myself now that this is complete.