Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov

Second Foundation

ByIsaac Asimov

  • Release Date: 1991-10-01
  • Genre: High Tech Sci-Fi
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 797 Ratings

Description

The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION

The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past—and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior—or its deadliest enemy?

Unforgettable, thought-provoking, and riveting, Second Foundation is a stunning novel of adventure and ideas writ huge across the Galaxy—a powerful tale of humankind’s struggle to preserve the fragile light of wisdom against the threat of its own dark barbarism.

Reviews

  • Trilogy’s End

    3
    By Richard Bakare
    A Trilogy is an interesting enterprise. The rising first part, the bridging second movement into a chilling climax, and then the natural descent in the denouement that is part three. This particular trilogy started with the challenge of setting a thousand year experience before the reader that would somehow remain engaging despite the ever changing cast of characters.

    Chinua Achebe did something similar in the African Trilogy that spanned generations. It was the careful weaving story arcs at the macro and micro level that made Achebe’s trilogy cohesive and compelling. Asimov’s vision, attempts the same at an even greater scale. In some ways it achieves this cohesiveness and in others it fails.

    The meta questions about society and science do successfully make their way from one part to the next. The characters, however, all seem to throw away; save for The Mule. It’s hard to care for any of them and thus there is no character anchor to pull you through the trilogy that you root for or against. Just camps of ideology and governance. Regardless, I can see how it inspired the likes of Star Wars and more.
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    5
    By txfdefufyt
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  • It's Always Good to Have a Backup!

    5
    By Dwardeng
    This is one lesson of many that we learn in the final book of the original Foundation trilogy. Engaging action builds to a satisfying conclusion. Another huge lesson from this trilogy- ignorance will destroy a civilization.
  • Other Foundation Books

    5
    By 808-b
    These books are great but what happened to the other Foundation books? I was reading "Foundation and Earth" on my iPad, updated to iOS 5.0 and then couldn't find the book in the iBooks store!
  • Beautiful

    5
    By pmjs58
    A masterfully written story that circles back on itself in surprising and clever ways. It was engaging and fun to read.

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