Foundation and Empire

Foundation and Empire

In the third book of the original trilogy back before trilogies began to overpopulate like rats in New York City, we find the Mule defeated in his search for the impalpable Second Foundation, and the search is then picked up by dissident members of the Foundation. As...
Second Foundation

Second Foundation

At the end of Foundation, the triumph of Hari Seldon’s Foundation seemed assured. So Asimov decides to throw a wrench into the works with the creation of the misbegotten warlord the Mule. Asimov apparently did this at the insistence of his then editor John...
Booking It

Booking It

Busy, busy, busy. The Flash Friday will return soon, but at the moment I’m in the middle working on the next Complete Funky Volume. In the meantime, this is your chance to catch up on the other volumes out there.
Foundation

Foundation

During the late summer of 1941, Isaac Asimov began work on his transcendent masterpiece Foundation. He has described on many occasions how he decided to take the lessons of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and apply them to the future of the galaxy...