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Isaac Asimov Libro Un capolavoro! Impossibile dargli meno di 5! Isaac Asimov Fondazione Anno Preludio alla Fondazione. In questo libro iniziamo a conoscere Hari Seldon fulcro del ciclo della fondazione originale , il matematico padre della Psicostoria. PDF gyermekonkologia. Free Download Here pdfsdocuments2. Janet Asimov voll.

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The Roman Empire Revisited: "The Foundation Trilogy" by Isaac Asimov SF has to involve some kind of imagining of a different world even if the difference is so small, that it it is superficially indistinguishable from our world at first glance , and this difference has to be rooted in, or have implications for, science or technology.

The last part is essential: it's why Frankenstein is SF, but Dracula isn't, for example. It's not just If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review. It's not just down to the environment it's set in. I think that it's more that SF is often an "active" narrative, "Action" in film parlance while "classic literature" is much more passive. View all 8 comments.

Jun 15, Jan-Maat added it Shelves: 20th-century , usa , novel , science-fiction. The Foundation trilogy is made up from a series of short stories published between and At the dawn of American dominance, Asimov as a fiction writer was inspired to write about decline and fall, rather like Edward Gibbon turned his attention to the end of Rome no sooner had victory in the Seven Years War set the seal on British ascendancy, but with science-fiction as his medium.

Asimov was fond of locked door murder mysteries and this technique of creating a seemingly impossible situat The Foundation trilogy is made up from a series of short stories published between and Asimov was fond of locked door murder mysteries and this technique of creating a seemingly impossible situation and resolving it cleverly is one that he used in the Foundation series.

The resolutions are clever. The series is enjoyable for its interest in big questions rather than big battles in spaces with loads of exploding things. But back to locked door mysteries. First Asimov locks the door by inventing a concept that he calls psychohistory. This is a super-science that allows the reasonably precise prediction of the future and this is the basis of the whole set of stories. Super scientist Harri Seldon using his magic powers mcguffin technique of psychohistory realises that the Galactic Empire in which he lives, is going to decline and collapse into a horrible galactic dark age in the very near future.

However he has also calculated that by planting a colony of scientists in a safe spot this dark age can be minimised. The door is closed - how can the stories be interesting if the results are known and predictable in advance - and the key turns in the lock.

The first solution is that the people of Foundation don't have access to the predictions and so fulfil them unwittingly. Then random events do occur particularly in Foundation and Empire , which appear spectacular but don't turn out to have a long term impact. Finally it turns out that a super secret cabal of psycho-historians had been hidden away to keep the plan on course. In the last of these early stories the Foundation becomes aware of this Second Foundation and embarks on a McCarthite witch-hunt for them.

Very much of its time with its fear of infiltration by people with mysterious mental powers think of The Manchurian Candidate , its interest in technology as the under pining of power, and its concern with Imperial rise and fall. Since apparently this series went on to influence Newt Gingrich I can only recommend it to careful readers. In the last days of a future human Galactic Empire spanning countless galaxies, mathematician Hari Seldon develops psychohistory theory using research analysis and statistics of significant numbers of humans across the Empire; it can be used to predict the future of large populations.

He foretells the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, a 30, year dark age and a second empire rising. Seldom devises a plan of action, creating the Foundations to limit the length of the dark age and preserve c In the last days of a future human Galactic Empire spanning countless galaxies, mathematician Hari Seldon develops psychohistory theory using research analysis and statistics of significant numbers of humans across the Empire; it can be used to predict the future of large populations.

Seldom devises a plan of action, creating the Foundations to limit the length of the dark age and preserve civilization, to become the seeds from which the second empire will grow far more quickly.

How did this book make me feel? This made me feel full of wonderment that a writer could produce such a detailed and believable galactic saga over s of years centred around mathematical theory, and make it a compelling and entertaining read! View all 4 comments.

May 03, E. View 2 comments. Feb 24, Wee Lassie rated it it was amazing. An excellent trilogy, with a lot of surprising twist and turn.

I swear the final twist took me so much by surprise, that I actually laughed out loud. Apr 14, Chris rated it it was amazing. Foundation : Gigantic brain-warping grand science-fiction, this is as big as it gets, so big it's difficult to fully comprehend. From the first page of Chapter 1, "The Psychohistorians", which begins with a quote from the "Encyclopedia Galactica", beginning in the 11,th year of the Galactic Era, you know that Isaac Asimov is going to be writing on the largest possible scale.

Let's take a look at what type of a man would dare write on such a staggeringly gigantic scale: This is the most Foundation : Gigantic brain-warping grand science-fiction, this is as big as it gets, so big it's difficult to fully comprehend.

Let's take a look at what type of a man would dare write on such a staggeringly gigantic scale: This is the most confidant looking man in horn-rimmed glasses and a bow-tie that you will ever see. That confidence and determination in his eyes is borne from the knowledge that he is going to blow your world into another freaking universe.

He is concocting a story which will encompass 25 Million inhabited worlds and will involve time-lines which play out over tens of thousands of years, involving sciences which will stretch your powers of comprehension.

With 'Foundation', Asimov sets his sights as high and as far as it is possible to conceive, resulting in a marvelous, and indeed humbling, intellectual edifice of awesome proportions.

I was very satisfactorily and indubitably rocked by it's mind-warping majesty. It makes perfect sense that the Hugo Award for 'Best All Time Series' was created in specifically to honor this achievement in science fiction.

This first book in the series begins with establishing both a new science, psychohistory - a type of mathematical sociology. The first book is a whirlwind of ideas and descriptions of a gigantic and futuristic human empire of the distant future. Foundation And Empire : Perhaps not so great as 'Foundation', this book is written in two main parts, the first of which was gigantic, epic science-fiction that I was hoping for.

The second part, 'The Mule', I frankly did not like. I did not care to be reading about the Mule or Magnifico the Clown, I wanted hard Foundation stuff, big science, psychohistory and scientists performing stunning upsets. I was unsure how all this played into psychohistory or how these characters fit into Hari Seldon's timeline of the future. Maybe I didn't like it because it derailed Seldon's psychohistory and thousand year plan.

However, these concerns were assuaged in 'Second Foundation'. Second Foundation : Split into two parts, the first part deals with the Mule and his easy conquest and the disruption of the Seldon plan. I did not particularly care for this and was anxious for it to be over. The second part finally does away with the Mule and it's back to Foundation scientists and Second Foundation psychohistorians, which I absolutely loved.

Asimov basically tells a plausible story with some weird bits, and then in the last chapter, a character comes along and you have to totally reinterpret what has happened, and why the weird bits were absolutely important even though the reader overlooked them and was focused on other events in the story. Asimov does this again and again and it's always marvelous. He did it in the first book, a bit in the second, and here in 'Second Foundation'. As a trilogy, I had some concerns which may or may not have been cleared up but that I perhaps didn't notice - maybe I just wasn't smart enough to notice them being cleared up in the subtle and elegant fashion which Asimov moves the plot along by slipping in facts which become relevant later.

If you travel from planet A to planet B, then back again, you may have taken 5 years to travel, but once you get back to planet A, it should be hundreds of years from when you left depending on how fast you were traveling. Asimov must have known this, but it seems to not have been incorporated into the story. A possible workaround is that that they make 'jumps' in space, so traveling from planet A to planet B requires no great disparity in the elapsing of time on either the planets, or to the travelers - However, this is never explicitly stated.

Perhaps this is obvious to other SF readers? One girl character is 5'4" and Hari Seldon dies when he is about 73 years old. That's not very futuristic, is it? I would expect the human race of thousands of years hence to be vastly taller, to live longer, and to to have very high IQs. There were other anachronistic elements, like Darrell having a maid? Keep in mind that these events take place at least 12, years after the establishment of a galactic empire, where the original home world of humans is no longer even known because it is lost in the mists of prehistory.

But people still say "Ain't" and sit around smoking cigars and reading newspapers? And there are farmers? Is this the future, as conceived of circa ? Given the vastness and age of space, and the uniformity of physical laws and elements, many astronomers will opine that the universe is quite literally teeming with life.

It seems implausible that human life is the only one across millions of inhabited worlds. Despite these issues, Asimov has constructed a grant universe and plot which takes place over years, a trilogy which is not only grand but very detailed, his story is filled with intricacies and shows a dedicated attention to detail and story construction.

An absolute monument of Science Fiction. All the three books contained some dull sections for me, not to mention several times when I was coming across what I would call Asimov's bad writing style. However, I will say that the chronicling of the events taking place within the confines of the trilogy have been in itself brilliantly structured and placed.

It was the mystery of the Second Foundation that made me kept going, and the twists! It is surprising however, that Asimov has avoided the inclusion of any extra-terrestrial life-forms in the books, which to me makes me think: that either they were irrelevant and thus intentionally not included, or perhaps they have been kept away from the brinks of the Galaxy in the Foundation Universe only to may be include them in the later books of the series.

Foundation and Empire book two deals with the coming and rise of a 'black swan' and how it deviates the prognosis - Hari Seldon's Plan using psycho-history. Second Foundation book three then deals with how the Second Foundation gets rid of the Mutant, and is now faced with a situation wherein the required outcome's probability of the Seldon Plan is reduced drastically. The story then progresses as to how the Second Foundation manipulates events that happen, using the mathematical equations representing the science of human behaviour, to increase this level of probability such that future events occur as devised by Hari Seldon.

Or are we controlled already … by something which we have always liked to refer to as Divine as defined by language and meaning or perhaps by some Extra-terrestrial life-form??! The third book deals the story in a way which can be very confusing to an un-focusing reader, and eventually may not understand its intricacy of the plot. Overall, if I contemplate on the three books individually, none of them have really 'amazed' me by their contents and storyline, but the whole, I can now certainly say, was spell-binding enough!

Jun 29, Andy Wenman rated it did not like it. I read some short stories by Asimov in High-School and although he never measured up to the likes Rohald Dahl or Kurt Vonnegut I seem to remember actually enjoying some of them, but there's no way I can pretend that this novel was anything other than awful.

This is bad science fiction in every sense of the word, overly descriptive of irrelevant details, filled soulless characters all with the same emotionless analytical voice, events that seem to have no purpose and all take place in a world tha I read some short stories by Asimov in High-School and although he never measured up to the likes Rohald Dahl or Kurt Vonnegut I seem to remember actually enjoying some of them, but there's no way I can pretend that this novel was anything other than awful.

This is bad science fiction in every sense of the word, overly descriptive of irrelevant details, filled soulless characters all with the same emotionless analytical voice, events that seem to have no purpose and all take place in a world that's extremely difficult to contextualise and even harder to care about and written with no style or eye for pacing.

I read at least half of the book and I honestly can't tell you what was happening, who any of the characters were or what was at stake. This is one of those books that is so uninteresting it's actually infuriating. Great science fiction uses the conceits of the genre to deal with big philosophical and questions and confront socio-political constructs, but it makes the reader care about these issues by putting a relatable character with basic human dilemmas at the centre.

This is where Foundation fails, it's all ideas and no humanity. I'd love to disseminate it more, but honestly, who cares? Who the fuck even cares? Do not recommend. View 1 comment. You can find my review on my blog by clicking here. Mind games at their finest! Far more idea-driven than character-driven, Isaac Asimov crafts the rise and fall of civilization in an intricate and astonishing prose.

Tackling subjects ranging from religion to politics, this s You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.

Tackling subjects ranging from religion to politics, this story will challenge your comprehension of individuals, but especially of collectives. Foundation propels us in a time period where the Galactic Empire has thrived for over years. In Foundation, Isaac Asimov introduces readers to psychohistory.

The originality behind this concept is beyond reproach and will drive this universe from the very beginning. Of all three books, Foundation will undoubtedly go down as my favourite of the trilogy because of not only how magnificent and grandiose the ideas were, but because Isaac Asimov manages to fit what seemed like a gargatuan amount of content into just pages.

What I also loved a lot about Foundation is its themes. Isaac Asimov serves us with countless questions to ponder on as events unfold on galactic scales. I also love how violence is depicted and how the author represents true power. The writing style also helps in delivering the prose fluidly without ever feeling jaded or overwhelmed. In fact, I found that the structure, composed of short stories, packed a lot punch and kept the intrigue at a high level. In all honesty, this one series that felt extremely accessible and easy to follow.

Everything was straight-forward, even the countless twists to come. While characters come and go, their dialogues remain pertinent and striking whenever they do appear. Foundation and Empire takes place a couple years later and introduces us to new characters.

The story presents us a much more powerful Foundation that easily takes care of the menace that represents the Empire until an unexpected force enters the stage. This individual who goes by the name of The Mule is known by countless to be a mutant with powers that no one has ever seen before.

Its the inclusion of such a character that threatens to put an end to a future that seemed sealed that brings new life to a story that seemed to know only one end. This was definitely interesting since the introduction of a woman also brought into play the one thing that never seem to be in the way of men in this story: emotions.

Foundation and Empire also changes its structure by splitting the book into two parts rather than having multiple short stories. The third book in the series, Second Foundation focuses on a second Foundation that was hidden away in a secret remote location that no one knows about in order to remain unaffected by the actions and events that the Empire and the Foundation will come face to face with.

Similar to the second book, this one is also split in two as the first part neatly ties things up regarding The Mule and the second part weaves us through the hunt for the second Foundation.

One of the elements that was regrettable is the level of predictability. In these last two books, I found myself foreseeing the ruses and the twists that were integrated. Even if I saw a couple moves ahead, I still thought that the ideas conveyed were brilliant. In Second Foundation, I also loved the introduction of a second female character—a little girl this time—who glowed with a radiant Sherlock Holmes vibe in whatever she did. The finale in this book was also brilliant and kept you at the edge of your seat without you realizing.

Just when you think things were done, expect the unexpected. Science, religion, economy, history, philosophy and politics will all be explored in their rawest forms and everything will always feel complementary to one another.

While the trilogy remains the three most important books of the series and must-reads for any science-fiction fan, Isaac Asimov expands the universe with sequels and prequels, as well as separate short stories for starving devotees. Published in , this trilogy remains a colossal piece of art in this day and age.

There is honestly no excuses out there that could justify putting this classic aside. In The Foundation Trilogy, comprised of Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, you'll quickly find yourself in front of an author whose grasp on science-fiction is beyond belief. Tackling subjects ranging from religion to politics, this story will challenge your comprehension of individuals, but also of collectives. Full review to come soon. The Foundation Trilogy is widely considered one of the most influential science fiction series ever written - it even won a Hugo award for the best all-time series back in the 60's.

And I get it. I can see why it's so influential, mostly because I've read and seen the books and movies and television shows that have been influenced by it I'm mostly talking about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Futurama , but there are countless others. Isaac Asimov has so many fantastic, interesting idea The Foundation Trilogy is widely considered one of the most influential science fiction series ever written - it even won a Hugo award for the best all-time series back in the 60's.

Isaac Asimov has so many fantastic, interesting ideas - he's tracing the fall and rise of a civilization, using past history to guide him. In the span of three novels we've seen this history play out over years, and seen how people originally seen as minor players were revered down in history later on.

It's just that it's so dry. I realize that the ideas are more important than the writing, but this is a book. I need more than interesting ideas to keep me motivated to read. The books do get better, however, I will admit that. But Foundation , the first book in the series, is hard to get over. I took a four month hiatus in between that and the second book because I couldn't get over how dry it was. Seriously, Foundation consists of people sitting around talking about ideas.

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