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Old 02-02-2015, 09:40 PM   #131
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Originally Posted by Quexos View Post
I think my best memory of Sci-Fi reading is the entire Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, including the later books like Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation.

However I never read the spin-offs by other authors who wrote about the Foundation universe.
I loved the Foundation series which I first read it as a young teen. I found the whole idea of psycho-history intriguing. But of Asimov's fiction, I was most impressed with his short story Nightfall. What lifts Asimov above many technically better writers is his ideas and the way he develops them.
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