“I studied physics as an undergrad, and basically what is doing is taking classical thermodynamics and applying it to human behavior. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to the complete interview with Anthony Ha, John Kessel, and Abby Goldsmith in Episode 434 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above).

But the dialogue I thought was pretty good. “The descriptions are really, really lacking,” she says. Science fiction author Abby Goldsmith enjoys reading Foundation as an adult, but as a teen she found it somewhat dry. “Because I think Asimov would probably say that in the larger sweep of history, those forces of economics and politics are more significant than any individual battle or war.”įoundation may be bursting with big ideas, but don’t go in expecting poetic prose or richly drawn characters. What about a political story, or an economic story?'” he says. “When everyone else is doing galactic space battles, maybe it’s a smart move to say, ‘Oh no, the guys doing derring-do with their blasters are a dime a dozen. But science fiction author John Kessel says that its focus on big ideas is what separates Foundation from a lot of other pulp science fiction of the 1940s that is now largely forgotten.

“I think this is one of the best ideas anyone’s ever had for a story in history,” he says.įoundation is notorious for featuring more talk than action, which may make it a challenge to adapt for TV. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley has always loved the concept. 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.Foundation tells the story of Hari Seldon and his followers, who use the futuristic science of psychohistory to plot their course through a galactic dark age and preserve scientific knowledge. Is she the Foundation's savior-or its deadliest enemy? Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. 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. 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. The Foundation lies in ruins-destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity's annihilation. THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION, NOW STREAMING The third novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

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