Simplified Series - Foundation
That old man hologram is a much more important character than you'd initially expect. My feverish pursuit of MOAR content brought forth this feature: Simplified Series. Here's the pitch: quick synopses (I'll try and keep them spoiler-free, but you know, most of these are past the statute of limitations on spoilers) of the entries in a series followed by the reasons you should or shouldn't read it. This week: The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov Background info: Asimov was a prolific author of science fiction and non-fiction books on a variety of topics. You may know him from adaptions like I, Robot or Bicentennial Man . Anyway, today we'll be talking about the Foundation trilogy. That's right, I said trilogy, this will only cover Foundation , Foundation and Empire , and Second Foundation , not any of the prequels and sequels he wrote in the 80's and 90's. I've read most of those as well, but this post would just be too long. Plus they sta...