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title: "Foundation and Whatnot" date: 2004-07-18 14:30 status: published description: > A book? What - on paper?!

tags: books, Isaac Asimov, Foundation

links:

• url: http://www.asimovonline.com/
  title: "Isaac Asimov Home Page" rel: related type: text/html

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After determining that I spend a lot of time with sounds and pictures being pumped into my brain, I decided that yesterday I'd have none of it. No <abbr class="caps">TV</abbr>, no radio and no use of the <abbr class="caps">PC</abbr>ing device. It actually worked quite well. </p>
<p>
I ended up reading Isaac Asimov's <cite>Foundation</cite>; I'd read it before, but in smaller chunks, so I hadn't really followed it properly. <cite>Foundation and Empire</cite>, <cite>Second Foundation</cite> and <cite>Foundation's Edge</cite> have also been sitting on the bookshelf since 1998(!). </p>
<p>
I read part of <cite>Foundation and Empire</cite> following on from my first attempt at <cite>Foundation</cite>, and <cite>Foundation's Edge</cite> prior to that. I had <cite>Prelude to Foundation</cite> and <cite>Foundation and Earth</cite> out of the library a while ago; I might see if they're in the 50p (to buy) bargain bin, to complete the set. </p>