A Review of Foundation’s Edge

Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Spectacular! Finally, a Foundation book worthy of its reputation and legacy. I found the Foundation Trilogy to be quite mediocre, at best, and even gave the second one just one star and couldn’t even finish it, it was so bad. The writing was horrible …

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A Review of The Naked Sun

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Naked Sun is really not a bad follow up to The Caves of Steel, both of The Robot series. The book features Earth and New York City detective Elijah Baley and Aurora humanoid robot, friend, and detective R. Daneel Olivaw traveling to …

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A Review of Second Foundation

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, what do you know? Asimov CAN actually write a decent book! I'm literally shocked! After reading the absolute disasters that the first two Foundation books were in terms of both plot and writing (the writing was atrocious, along the lines of a young …

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A Review of Foundation and Empire

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov My rating: 1 of 5 stars I'm sorry if I sound like a sci fi traitor, but this book sucks. And this series sucks. I have no idea how it won a one time Hugo for best sci fi/fantasy trilogy of all time, beating Lord of the Rings, but …

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A Review of Perihelion

Perihelion by William F. Wu My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the conclusion to the six book Robot City series and I, for one, found it fairly satisfying. Robot City hasn't been the best written series I've ever read. Perhaps part of the reason is that most of the books were written by …

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