I’ve been reading through Asimov’s Foundation series. I found the first book quite dull and the premise kind of difficult to buy, and a little too ‘great man of history’-y. The second was much better though, and actually featured a female character. How progressive!
I remember reading The Caves of Steel a long while back and I liked it a lot, so I was overall slightly disappointed here. But if the trend in quality continues in this way then the third book ought to be pretty good.
Well, books 1 and 2 were very different and didn’t really contain anything that could be considered remotely similar twists IMO. But there are a ton of prequels and sequels and stuff made after the original trilogy that I’m probably not gonna read and that as far as I know Asimov kinda didn’t intend to write, so it sounds entirely likely that some of those were phoned in lol
I’ve been reading through Asimov’s Foundation series. I found the first book quite dull and the premise kind of difficult to buy, and a little too ‘great man of history’-y. The second was much better though, and actually featured a female character. How progressive!
I remember reading The Caves of Steel a long while back and I liked it a lot, so I was overall slightly disappointed here. But if the trend in quality continues in this way then the third book ought to be pretty good.
all I remember from reading the foundation series when I was 14 years old is that he uses the exact same plot twist in like three separate books
Well, books 1 and 2 were very different and didn’t really contain anything that could be considered remotely similar twists IMO. But there are a ton of prequels and sequels and stuff made after the original trilogy that I’m probably not gonna read and that as far as I know Asimov kinda didn’t intend to write, so it sounds entirely likely that some of those were phoned in lol