Foundation\'s Fear /Foundation 4 - Second Foundation /1
Sorry for the brevity of this review, but I've blacked out most memories of this book. What I do remember is that the protagonist Hari Seldon felt incompatible with how I (fondly) remember Asimov's character, and that the prolonged storyline about AI realizations of Joan of Arc and Voltaire seemed utterly unrelated to the Foundation world of Asimov and completely boring, to boot. This book left me with zero interest in reading any farther in the series, or anything else by Benford, for that matter.
Gregory Benford - Foundation's Fear - 3
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Oh ye gods - I remember it now.
It was awful.
I thought the AI bits were quite good (aspecially the personality swapping bit) - but were totally gratuitous to the context of Foundation.
It's a book i don't paricularaly want to reread either.
It was awful.
I thought the AI bits were quite good (aspecially the personality swapping bit) - but were totally gratuitous to the context of Foundation.
It's a book i don't paricularaly want to reread either.
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Hmm I really enjoyed this series - especially the David Brin written third part, he even left it with an opening for more, but they did a very good job of clearing up loose end and patching the holes that Asimov had left in his Universe.
I look at it as more of a third of a [very] long book than a novel in it's own right. Longer than the original Foundation trilogy, but not anywhere near as bloated as some of Asimov's later books.
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I look at it as more of a third of a [very] long book than a novel in it's own right. Longer than the original Foundation trilogy, but not anywhere near as bloated as some of Asimov's later books.
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