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Old 11-17-2010, 10:57 PM   #23
bill_mchale
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I think it's more interesting to read the Foundation stuff in Asimov's suggested order-- yes, some things end up being less of a surprise, but it's also intriguing to have an overall framework to step away from the books and consider.
I am in the opposite camp. In fact, part of me wishes I had never read any of the novels written after Foundation's Edge. The suggestion of a linkage between the Robot Novels and the Foundation Novels was all I needed. In fact, I think he tried too hard in his later books to create that linkage.

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