---
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

---

<p>
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.
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