Prelude to Foundation
by Isaac Asimov · first published 1988
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Voici une occasion tant pour ceux qui ont lu les cinq volumes du cycle ##Fondation## d'en constater la prȟistoire, que pour ceux qui ne les ont pas lus d'inaugurer la lecture d'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la science-fiction contemporaine. [SDM].
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The sequels are definitely weaker, but still worth reading. I enjoyed Prelude to Foundation. I disliked Foundation's Edge because I didn't agree with the fate of mankind as envisioned by Asimov :/
on “How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet” ↗Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
on “Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently?” ↗I think Prelude to Foundation could of been a nice mini-series, but overall Asimov's works are just too fragmented to hold up to being a series really.
on “Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer” ↗I have two on the go. In the middle of moving houses so it's been about a week or so since I've picked up either :S 1. Prelude to Foundation by Asimov 2. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene I've read the Foundation series in the past, and I'm going through them again since it's been years. As for Greene, I've always had an interest in Physics,…
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗> Hari Seldon, hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, was deliberately put into a wide variety of situations This refers to the books Prelude to Foundation (1988) and Forward the Foundation (1993).
on “Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea” ↗As a fictional example, in Asimov's "Prelude to Foundation" one of the locations (Dahl, a geothermal power district) offset the sweltering heat by running dimmer, reddish lighting, which apparently had a psychological effect on the inhabitants' perception of…
on “A Drop of 4 Degrees Made a Big Difference for a Garment Maker's Bottom Line” ↗Mycogeny: the formation of a mycoplasma within a cell "mycogeny was detected in liver urine and its recovery in lymph nodes remained unclear" It’s not too far off Mycogen: As Asimov explains in Prelude to Foundation,[21] their name is formed from the Greek stems myco- (meaning 'yeast' or other types of fungi) and -gen (meaning 'maker' or 'producer'). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Isaac_Asimo...
on “Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist” ↗