{"id":12100,"date":"2018-07-15T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12100"},"modified":"2022-05-11T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T01:53:38","slug":"foundation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/foundation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <strong>Foundation<\/strong> series is one of my favourites. I read the 7 books he wrote in the series many years ago. I&#8217;ve now reread them, plus the books that others wrote in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Asimov eventually connected his <strong>Foundation<\/strong> stories with the <strong>Galactic Empire<\/strong> series and the <strong>Robot<\/strong> series. I haven&#8217;t read either of the latter series yet but I intend to.<\/p>\n<p>Books by Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundation\/\">Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1951 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundation-and-empire\/\">Foundation and Empire<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1952 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/second-foundation\/\">Second Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1953 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundations-edge\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Edge<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1982 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/foundation-and-earth\/\">Foundation and Earth<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1986 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/prelude-to-foundation\/\">Prelude to Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1988 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/forward-the-foundation\/\">Forward the Foundation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1993 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books by others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/foundations-friends\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Friends<\/a> edited by Martin H. Greenberg\n<ul>\n<li>1989 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/foundations-fear\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Fear<\/a> by Gregory Benford\n<ul>\n<li>1997 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/foundation-and-chaos\/\">Foundation and Chaos<\/a> by Greg Bear\n<ul>\n<li>1998 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/foundations-triumph\/\">Foundation&#8217;s Triumph<\/a> by David Brin\n<ul>\n<li>1999 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/pscyhohistorical-crisis\/\">Psychohistorical Crisis<\/a> by Donald Kingsbury&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>2001 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Foundation series is one of my favourites. I read the 7 books he wrote in the series many years ago. I&#8217;ve now reread them, plus the books that others wrote in the series. Asimov eventually connected his Foundation stories with the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. I haven&#8217;t read either of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7,42,8],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19090,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions\/19090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}