![]() They were originally published as a series of loosely interconnected stories, later collected into novels, and in turn later awarded the first Hugo for Best Series of All Time. With this in mind, I started reading Asimov’s Foundation series. ![]() (It also helps that Lucas has done enough to disillusion me on the ‘Expanded Universe’ in general, but I digress). But, as I’ve grown older, I’ve developed more of an appreciation for more thoughtful sci-fi. I mean, Star Wars had LASER GUNS and LASER SWORDS and was otherwise more action packed. Of course, as a kid, I tended more towards Star Wars than Star Trek. I remember reading a few robot novels (including a series with time traveling robots and dinosaurs and pirates) in my youth- but nothing really ‘clicked’ for me. In recent years, I’ve been looking to fix that! I’ve read Asimov before, but not that much. He also wrote a story about Batman! (kinda). Dude wrote about a metric bajillion novels (not to mention the short stories), came up with ‘Asimov’s laws of Robotics,’ and otherwise is justifiably one of the godfathers of Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov’s Second Foundation (is actually the third in the series).Īsimov. ![]()
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