One leader says, in fact, in response to a crisis, the threat of warfare and annihilation, 'I'm going to do nothing. The forces of the novel are broad, historical, dealing with masses of people this means that there is little to no room for individual characters here and little to be done by the few characters who do appear. There are some interesting elements to it (for instance, the use of religion as a tool of mass control and the implicit resultant argument that religion is no more than a fraud, 'the opiate of the people,' after all), but the book gave me little to enjoy or dig into. The forces of the novel are broad, historical, dealing with masses of people this means that there is little to no room for individual characters here and little to be done Honestly, I don't get why this book/series is so popular. Honestly, I don't get why this book/series is so popular. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed.more He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.īut soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientis For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme.

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