I first read Isaac Asimov's classic novel Foundation while in graduate school working on my doctoral dissertation. I was interested in the way that Asimov uses the encyclopedia as a focal point at the beginning of the novel. As I have noted elsewhere, this is a point that drops out of the series fairly quickly. At the time, I read the first couple of novels before posting interest. Later on, I read Foundation with my sci-fi group. I don't remember the conversation about this one but I probably brought up encyclopedism and the Enlightenment a bunch.
Just recently, I decided to take a run at the whole series. I have accumulated all of the books over the last few months and this is my attempt to read all of them and to write about them here. I don't expect to enjoy all of the books, but I do hope to find the good in them. Asimov is a writer who I think is great with ideas and plotting but terrible with character.
I don't have any particular aim in reading these books this time, so we'll see how this goes.
Be on the lookout for subsequent installments in this series.
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