I'm excited for Foundation now. Forward was perhaps not as intriguing as Prelude, but it was quite a story. There were some points at the start that irked me a little - coming directly from the end of Prelude when Dors quite explicitly agreed she was a robot to the start of Forward where Hari is confused about her nature. Thankfully that's only a few paragraphs.

Asimov has managed to capture the complexities of following a person's life long ambition exceptionally well. There are no overly complex day to day explorations of specifics like say, Stevenson does in Seven Eves. However you do get the joy, dispare, hopelessness, pride, depression and confidence that Hari goes through.

Quite a nice read.