BOOKS : Foundation Trilogy
I read this when I was little, and thought I'd read it again a few years on.
It is still pretty darn good, Asimov's writing style is terse but enjoyable. In fact the series is broken down into a number of smaller sections - essentially a number of short stories (maybe medium stories...) strung in a row. This takes advantage of Asimov's style, rather than trying to get the man to spin it out.
And I like the way, especially at the beginning, he doesn't actually finish the stories off, he just gets to the 'sting' and then lets you assume that the rest worked out... Sometimes referring to the successful events in the next story.
Strangely it doesn't feel particularly dated, even though I've read some great modern stuff by Greg Egan and Neil Stephenson which takes Tech in a very different (and at this stage more plausible) direction. I guess this is probably because it seems to be more about psychology and economics than anything else. In fact I would guess that economists reading it would get really worked up as they dis/agree with the hypothosis' he is making.
All in all an alright series, I can see why it was so popular, but these days I am looking for a little more character in my stories :)
It is still pretty darn good, Asimov's writing style is terse but enjoyable. In fact the series is broken down into a number of smaller sections - essentially a number of short stories (maybe medium stories...) strung in a row. This takes advantage of Asimov's style, rather than trying to get the man to spin it out.
And I like the way, especially at the beginning, he doesn't actually finish the stories off, he just gets to the 'sting' and then lets you assume that the rest worked out... Sometimes referring to the successful events in the next story.
Strangely it doesn't feel particularly dated, even though I've read some great modern stuff by Greg Egan and Neil Stephenson which takes Tech in a very different (and at this stage more plausible) direction. I guess this is probably because it seems to be more about psychology and economics than anything else. In fact I would guess that economists reading it would get really worked up as they dis/agree with the hypothosis' he is making.
All in all an alright series, I can see why it was so popular, but these days I am looking for a little more character in my stories :)
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