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Post by st1_Emrys on Aug 4, 2005 14:18:31 GMT -5
Has anyone read the Foundation books by Asimov? I was just wondering if anyone agreed with me in thinking that foundation's edge and foundation and Earth sucked... the Seldon plan is soo much better than Gaia or whatever.
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Post by Kirke on Aug 4, 2005 16:02:04 GMT -5
Foundation. I loved the books, but I am a rabid Asimov fan, so if it has his name on it...I probably have read it and enjoyed it immensely.
I like both the stories, but the idea of forecasting the future is cooler than a hive-mind, I agree...-thinks about the Overmind in Star Craft-.....
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Post by st1_Emrys on Aug 8, 2005 19:11:35 GMT -5
Zerg rule... anyways I thought that the First book- (the series of crises) was sweet. That was my favorite of the books for that reason. With the introduction of the "hive-mind" so to speak (thinks about Ender's Game...) it takes away the crises, which was the best part of the book. I hate that it became a negative outlook on the second empire. The whole point was to build a second, less corrupt empire, which could bring together the barbaric worlds. The galaxia/gaia or whatever it was called only took the willing, which meant that some barbarism would remain. While the foundation conquered worlds it was through peaceful, yet irresistible forces which were sure (assured by the Seldon plan as well as Preem Palver's guiding hand) to bring it about. Galaxia seems unlikely to ever be fully realized. Personally I loved Seldon (Forward the Foundation was an excellent book) and so I'm somewhat biased (if you can be biased about a fictional character), but I still think that the Seldon plan was better.
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