Asimov/Foundation

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I’m the OP. Can we please keep this thread to a discussion of the Foundation series?

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Soitenly! My apologies.

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[QUOTE=dalej42]
I’m the OP. Can we please keep this thread to a discussion of the Foundation series?
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Just read the darn books. They aren’t that long and what I read Asimov for, like the others have mentioned, isn’t the characters. It is the fact that on almost every page the man throws a brilliant idea at you. I read his books and have to stop and say woah! a few times every chapter. The man was brilliant.

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[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
If it helps, Asimov agreed with you, and only added it at the request of his editor. Like this reviewer of Asimov’s books points out:

http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book003.html
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But, how would the story have made any sense at all without that “subplot”? What would it have been about? How would it have ended?

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
But, how would the story have made any sense at all without that “subplot”? What would it have been about? How would it have ended?
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"And then he woke up at home in his bed and realized that it was all only a dream.

The End"