Fundació

by Isaac Asimov

329 pages

Català language

Published Aug. 31, 2022 by Duna llibres.

ISBN:: 978-84-19206-91-6

(63 reviews)

L’Imperi Galàctic s’ha expandit i consolidat al llarg de 12.000 anys, de manera que ningú pot sospitar que el cor d’aquest pròsper sistema està podrit. Ningú tret del psicohistoriador Hari Sheldon, que ha utilitzat la seva nova ciència per predir un futur terrible. Exiliat al desolat planeta Términus, Seldon estableix una colònia amb les ments més brillants de l’Imperi, una Fundació que té la clau per canviar el destí de la galàxia. Tanmateix, l’agonia de l’Imperi portarà nous enemics a la Fundació, que es veurà amenaçada abans fins i tot de començar la seva tasca.

La sèrie de La Fundació és una obra mestra icònica d’Asimov. Amb el teló de fons d’un Imperi Galàctic en decadència, la història de Hari Seldon és un testimoni clar de l’extraordinària imaginació que va donar forma a la ciència ficció moderna.

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crochetedman reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Review of 'Foundation' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

The Foundation series are some of my favorite books. They're definitely a product of their time (Asimov was clearly more comfortable with writing short stories for magazines than with writing novels, and his biases are obvious in the misogynistic treatment of the few women in the story) but their basic ideas hold up well.

I personally really enjoy the rather dry political tone, and both the lack of focus on character development and the long time-skips are fitting given the premise of the story (which posits a theory of "psychohistory" in which the overall trajectory of a large group is emphasized over the actions of individuals, and which can be used to predict and direct the future over long periods of time). The plot twists and reveals also never come out of nowhere, and sufficiently tie back to previous details to make each individual part feel neat and tidy.

po3mah reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

masterpiece of sociology

5 stars

I wonder why th I didn't read this book before. Almost all modern scifi is borrowing ideas from it.

ManyRoads reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Review of 'Foundation' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is a very good novel- the beginning of a major life's work. Clearly no one should expect this novel comes to a closure. It is instead a beginning of a' mystery' and tale of evolution.

Eph (they, them) reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

How mankind can never get it right

5 stars

Content warning Plots and themes revealed broadly

Now that I am getting an understanding of Bookwyrm, this is my first useful Review. We tend to critically review literature through the lens of evolutionary psychology.

What we find in both sci-fi and all fiction really is the ignorance of how enslaved we are to evolutionary drives, behaviors, and thinking. In this fabulous book, once again mankind has surpassed all imaginable science and technology. Yet, humanity's nature destroys it all, taking the universal Empire back to chaos.

You might argue, well ain't that showing our evolutionary natures. Why, yes, it is. My critique is, why can't we grow in intrinsic self-awareness as we grow cerebrally? The problem always is in fiction is such intrinsic self-awareness cannot be attained in a top-down manner. The ability to manage our primitive drives, behaviors, and beliefs, is attained through somatic and mindful awareness.

But, if we evolved beyond our evolutionary behaviors along with our progress in science and technology, we'd have no good science fiction to read!

papapep reviewed Fundació by Isaac Asimov

El poder i el coneixement, jugant al gat i la rata, la humanitat en el seu joc habitual

5 stars

Una nova i preciosa edició d'un clàssic entre clàssics. Una saga escrita entre els anys 50s i 90s del segle 20 (no us perdeu especialment els 3 primers volums) que, com sempre feia Asimov, mentre ens explicava històries de tecnologia, robots i espai en el fons ens parlava del ser humà, com a individu, com a col·lectiu, de com ens relacionem, de com ens veiem com a individus i com ens projectem a la societat.

Madebypaul reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Time and a place

3 stars

Sure it’s great literature kind of dripping in bigotry and misogyny but I’m sure it had its time and place in the sci-fi hall of fame. Cool TV series though.

PublicHealthInnit reviewed FOUNDATION- PB by Isaac Asimov

Review of 'FOUNDATION- PB' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

The book takes the determinist idea that if you knew enough science, you could effectively predict the future and then does precisely nothing interesting with it. The book is remarkably sexist - Asimov’s disdain for womankind is mostly shown by the depiction of a universe in which women are almost entirely absent. A woman speaks precisely once in the book and in response, she is told that she speaks too much and is threatened by her husband to have her tongue removed.

Also, it’s just pretty boring. I don’t know why it’s still in print.

Anthony Burgess reviewed Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Another one of those "Why do people like this so much" books

3 stars

This time, I'm not gonna read the whole trilogy.

I'm baffled that I don't enjoy another one of those books that so many people hype. I like some of his other books, but maybe I just don't fancy his writing style.

This whole system of "Is it gonna work? IS IT REALLY GONNA WORK?!?!? Yes it worked" is just not my jam. There wasn't that much sci-fi in this one as well, it's just a very minor detail to it.

This whole books starts with a guy that invents a way to guess what will happen in the future and nobody else can do that somehow. It was something that was invented and not some magic device. How is it impossible for everyone else to figure this out? Why did everyone just fall back a thousand steps in technology? Why did nobody look much more into it the first time …

This time, I'm not gonna read the whole trilogy.

I'm baffled that I don't enjoy another one of those books that so many people hype. I like some of his other books, but maybe I just don't fancy his writing style.

This whole system of "Is it gonna work? IS IT REALLY GONNA WORK?!?!? Yes it worked" is just not my jam. There wasn't that much sci-fi in this one as well, it's just a very minor detail to it.

I just don't get this book and have no idea to whom I would recommend this one. Maybe these kind of books don't age that well? Maybe I'm just too young to get it. 🤷🏼