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Jun. 13th, 2012 03:15 pmThis is going to be a terrible booklog because I legitimately have nothing to say about Foundation, that Classic of American Science Fiction Etc.
Admittedly this is largely because I read it for that archiving apocalypse paper and so my experience of reading it went mostly like this:
HARI SELDON: In order to fight the coming apocalypse, I have decided to start an epic project of archiving ALL THE THINGS on a remote planet called Foundation!
BECCA: Great! This is super relevant to my thesis! Bring it on, Hari Seldon!
HARI SELDON: LOL no actually it turns out that was just my cunning scheme to get Foundation started. Nobody cares about archiving! ACTUALLY my cunning plan is to manipulate events from beyond the grave or something like that to rebuild civilization, blah blah religion as technology blah blah forces of history blah blah traders blah blah . . .
BECCA: . . . . . . oh. >.<
And then the rest of the book happened I guess and was sort of interesting as a thought experiment in historical theory if you like that kind of thing, but I was too busy being annoyed at the archiving bait-and-switch to care. So this may be a function of timing, but on the other hand, I did read Foundation once before, many years ago, and I didn't remember anything about it from that time either. Sorry, Isaac Asimov! I liked I, Robot!
Admittedly this is largely because I read it for that archiving apocalypse paper and so my experience of reading it went mostly like this:
HARI SELDON: In order to fight the coming apocalypse, I have decided to start an epic project of archiving ALL THE THINGS on a remote planet called Foundation!
BECCA: Great! This is super relevant to my thesis! Bring it on, Hari Seldon!
HARI SELDON: LOL no actually it turns out that was just my cunning scheme to get Foundation started. Nobody cares about archiving! ACTUALLY my cunning plan is to manipulate events from beyond the grave or something like that to rebuild civilization, blah blah religion as technology blah blah forces of history blah blah traders blah blah . . .
BECCA: . . . . . . oh. >.<
And then the rest of the book happened I guess and was sort of interesting as a thought experiment in historical theory if you like that kind of thing, but I was too busy being annoyed at the archiving bait-and-switch to care. So this may be a function of timing, but on the other hand, I did read Foundation once before, many years ago, and I didn't remember anything about it from that time either. Sorry, Isaac Asimov! I liked I, Robot!
