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Post by spunberry on Jan 3, 2012 5:14:55 GMT -5
Have any of you read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series? If you haven't, those books are AMAZING! Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation are the main trilogy, with extra books that were written after.
Asimov also wrote the Robot Series, which is equally as good. Highly recommended! I hope I'm not alone!
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Post by Capricorn on Jan 3, 2012 5:27:34 GMT -5
What's it about? :]
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Post by spunberry on Jan 3, 2012 18:52:22 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia (which of course is the most accurate thing on the planet ) "The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology (analogous to mathematical physics). Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone on a small scale. It works on the principle that the behaviour of a mass of people is predictable if the quantity of this mass is very large (equal to the population of the galaxy, which has a population of quadrillions of humans, inhabiting millions of star systems). The larger the number, the more predictable is the future. Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting thirty thousand years before a second great empire arises." That sounds so technical and scientific, but it's actually a really exciting adventure. Really just a very riveting set of stories. Maybe we'll make it a book club thing later on if that grows.
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