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Rating: 3 stars

More a series of interconnected short stories than a novel.

It is the fall of the Roman Empire. In space. It is storytelling of epic scope. It is also very much a product of the 1950s when only (white) men were people, when women only existed as wives, and when the men smoked cigars and believed firmly in the excellence of atomic power and the possibility of objective, unified truth in the field of psychology.

I did like it enough to want to read the rest of the trilogy (although maybe not the whole 15 book series), and I've been told that female characters will appear.

Foundation is the first of The Foundation Trilogy. I like reading Asimov. His chapters are short and his characters are interesting though not the primary part of the story. In Foundation we are taken through years of time in leaps and bounds. The protagonist is really the Foundation and the evolution of society. The story is about growth according to the science of psychohistory and the theory of Hari Seldon that crisis will force the evolution along to the future Empire. Read in 2011

I thought this was an interesting read, but I was also continually left wanting more. I was intrigued by the details of each section, but I wanted more depth in world building and character development. I also found the abrupt ending unsatisfactory, yet it did not leave me feeling any real need to read the next books in the series.