It does initially seem a bit too enthralled with bloated world-building but things pick up as they splinter. “Foundation” jumps back and forth in time and from one world to another as it breaks into myriad storylines. There’s also a world about to drown where folks have turned against science how’d they come up with that? Ray gun battles and brutal executions, breathtaking disasters and exotic humanoids, mysterious monoliths and spaceships galore. But since this is modern-day science fiction, there’s also violence and special effects up the wazoo. But Hari has a suggestion: he wants to aggregate all human knowledge so society will have, yes, a foundation on which to rebuild more quickly. And then it will take 30,000 years for things to settle down. It starts with a young man attending the University of Earth. The book is part of Asimovs Galactic Empire series and takes place before the actual founding of the Galactic Empire, before even Trantor becomes important. Not in the next few weeks, but too soon for comfort. The Stars, Like Dust is a 1951 science fiction mystery book by American writer Isaac Asimov. Everything’s going fine until a mathematician named Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), who studies psycho-history, declares he has proof that civilization is doomed to failure.
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