![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, he is swept up by a journalist who is obviously so much more into a whirlwind adventure, touring various sectors of Trantor while under the protection of a love/lust interest, Dors. After a disappointing audience with the emperor, Hari thinks he is on his way home to Helicon. He speaks of a glimmer of an idea-psychohistory-and this is enough to get the attention of Galactic Emperor Cleon I. Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor to give a talk at a conference. I am starting to think Asimov himself is very much like this book: he should not be overlooked, but when you do look at him, he isn’t all that great. ![]() It is in many ways a great folly yet it also shows Asimov’s abiding love for a genre that he nurtured and helped kickstart into a thriving industry. Prelude to Foundation is one of the last Foundation stories Asimov wrote, yet it is chronologically the earliest. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is a classic. Modesitt’s Recluce saga is one of the most notable modern examples. At some point, every author who has a long-spanning saga feels encouraged to go back and fill in gaps in the chronology, creating that wonderful dichotomy of possible reading experiences: publication order and chronological order. ![]() There must be some law about how, the longer an author is allowed to play in their sandbox, the worse their stories get. ![]()
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