2011年3月10日 · One more novel needs to be appended to these lists. Donald M. Kingsbury wrote, with the permission of the Asimov estate, a novel wich takes place in the new/Second Foundation Empire. The book is called Psychohistorical Crisis. It was published in 2001 and is a fantastic addition to the canon of Asimov's Foundation books.

Asimov's writing style changes distinctly over time. It also gives a good arrangement chronologically, with the prequels foreshadowing the final two books, instead of explaining things you've already read about.

2023年9月12日 · Asimov isn't as consistent about expressing the laws of robotics as you might think. Throughout his stories, he played with the ideas to see how they'd play out. And it doesn't help that they were written at very different times. Worse, in the 1980s he was integrating the Robots and Foundation universes - so some of the rules changed.

2021年7月4日 · Isaac Asimov, as you surmised. "The Feeling of Power".In the distant future, humans live in a computer-aided society and have forgotten the fundamentals of mathematics, including even the rudimentary skill of counting.

Apart from the Foundation and Robot series, Asimov's works aren't interrelated very strongly. So apart from the Robots quadrilogy (Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire) and the Foundation series (original trilogy, two sequels, and two prequels) which should be read in order, there is little in the way of spoilers.

2011年1月12日 · It's best enjoyed after reading Asimov. But of all the sequels, I'd recommend Orson Scott Card's story "The Originist" from Foundation's Friends which reads like pure Asimov in spirit, but better written than anything Ike ever did himself. I recommend reading all of these after the Asimov-written books. "The Orginist" fills in a beautiful bit ...

2012年11月16日 · Asimov called guns "blasters" in Foundation and Star Wars followed suit. The Foundation was set up on the "outer rim of the galaxy" and Luke's home planet of Tatooine is also in "the outer rim". Luke even says something to the effect of a bright, center of the galaxy (Tractor/Coruscant) and that they are the farthest planet from.

Their science of prediction and control is biological rather than statistical, but their intentions are similar to those of Asimov's psychohistorians. So, considering that Paul is the son of Lady Jessica, a Bene Gesserit, and receives a Bene Gesserit training, it seems likely that Herbert was inspired by Foundation .

Asimov's works can almost certainly be considered canon, but there's really very little guidance after that. But we can apply reason: The stories in the multiple-author anthology "Foundation's Friends" were written while Asimov was alive, but are of questionable "canon".

2022年12月22日 · Clarke vs Asimov. Clarke and Asimov first met in New York City in 1953, and they traded friendly insults and gibes for decades. They established a verbal agreement, the "Clarke–Asimov Treaty", that when asked who was best, the two would say Clarke was the best science fiction writer and Asimov was the best science writer.