Foundation (1951)

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov (Gnome Press, 1951); audiobook read by William Hope (HarperCollins, 2019)

Book cover: “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov (Gnome Press, 1951); audiobook read by William Hope (HarperCollins, 2019)

A collected sequence of SF novellas taking inspiration from the fall of the Roman Empire. Asimov’s ideas aren’t without interest but the prose is workmanlike and the characters little more than mouthpieces. The future, apparently, contains infinitely more expository speechmaking than women.

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