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Foundation and Empire

By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Summary
 The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation?

Filled with nail-biting suspense, nonstop action, and cutting-edge speculation, Foundation and Empire is the story of humanity’s perpetual struggle against the darkness that forever threatens to overwhelm the light—and of how the courage of even a determined few can make all the difference in the universe. Classics Fantasy Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Robotics Fiction Interstellar
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This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, depicted in amazing detail. When the David & Goliath of ideals meet and the difference that can be made by one person, how one single person can change the course of a predictable future. The question is, will the change be for good or ill?

This is what happens when an unstoppable force ...

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An Azimov Classic... It would be as impossible for me to add anything to the plaudits already bestowed for the Author and the Trilogy as it would be for me to write a story even nearing the mind opening brilliance of Issac Asimov...

A Reading Must...

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The new Apple series deviates pretty completely from the original Asimov stories, sometimes necessarily but mostly I feel because they just wanted to create a new story. But there are elements in the original Asimov stories which would be almost impossible to film as is spans such a period, but it shouldn’t diminish the awe one should feel from hearing or reading these stories for the first or 5th time.

Extremely well read and dramatised a must for all fans and a great introduction to Science Fiction.

The most wonderful sci fi series ever

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