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August 13, 2005
Foundation
Following up on a comment from Andy, I finally read the first of Asimov's Foundation stories.
This must be a book for boys. The story has fewer women than Star Wars. But it kept me turning the pages. Some of the devices seem unfair, like having Mallow film the encounter for which, year hence, he gets taken to court. Yet none of those tricks prevented me from wanting to find out what's going to happen next.
Psychohistory sounds like magic more than mathematics, but I guess Asimov's contemporary, Arthur C. Clarke, would explain that away and allow it in science fiction. And I guess I'd like to read the next one in the series.
Posted by Mark at August 13, 2005 02:14 PM