I had read some of Asimov's Robot novels and liked them so I figured I'd try this series as well. I was very disappointed. While the style is similar to I, Robot, short episodic stories tied together by a longer narrative, everything else fell short. For one, to me it seems like the premise is inconsistent. Seldon calculates high odds that the Foundation will overcome crisis, and yet, clearly if a few really arrogant characters hadn't been able to predict the future (without psychohistory or even listening to anyone) the Foundation would have fallen off course. Though Seldon claimed that the actions of individuals couldn't be calculated by psycho history, so he calculated by ... um? Asimov seems to try to both accept and deny fatalism at the same time. And lets talk about the sexism in this book. The only two women that appear are inconsequential characters either temperamental or (have it implied) that the only thing they care about is appearance. When the subject of atomic housewares come up, its said they are for wives to use. Being published in 1951 is no excuse. Asimov has done better. This hurt.