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by: Isaac Asimov
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553293364
ISBN: 0553293362
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: October 01, 1991
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date: October 01, 1991
Sales Rank: 12672
Studio: Spectra
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Product Description:
Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time—but now he is certain he knows where it lies.
The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed…before it destroys them.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Fun Fun Fun
Great book! Third in the series of three novels, all three are worth the read. I read all three in about two and half weeks. It might be interesting to read them in conjunction with Kuhn's Structures of Scientific Revolutions. Every "Seldon Crisis" brings about a "new world". Really fun stuff. Don't miss out!
Rating:  - Tentative ending begs for sequel; Asimov obliges
The original finale of the Foundation trilogy that Asimov eventually expanded on both ends, this installment has a little more plot interest, but suffers from a tentative ending, as if Asimov knew he would revisit it,
He did, many years later, with Foundation's Edge (Foundation Novels) and Forward the Foundation (Foundation Novels).
Rating: - The climax to the series, and for most people, the place to stop reading
If you started with "Foundation", went on to "Foundation and Empire" and did not read the prequels, this is a high note to go out on. Your own internal loyalty will be tested between Foundation and Second Foundation - your old alliegance is to the Foundation, but is the Second Foundation a necessary evil? Iconic stuff of a level of art rarely reached in science fiction.
Rating: - Thinking man's Foundation novel
I found Second Foundation to be the best in the series thus far. Both halves of the novel have so many twists and turns you wouldn't expect, I would be impressed by anyone who can figure out the true story before it comes to light. This book is on par with mystery and double/triple-spy stories. I hope the remaining books in the series are as complex!
(Books in the series to read before this one: Prelude to Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire)
Rating:  - Ages Wekk
For a novel written over 55 years ago, it ages pretty well. The central theme is still as compelling as when Asimov came up with it, even with all the other and sometimes inconsistent material written since, e.g., Prelude to Foundation, The Second Foundation Trilogy.
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