/lit/ - Literature

>>11476180
The "trilogy" is a series of "novels" that have been clumsily cobbled together from short stories Asimov had been publishing in magazines. Keep that in mind if you expect a single cohesive narrative.

First book starts off well by setting up the story but then kind of just meanders in fatalism. I would say it's the worst of the three. I don't know if I'd recommend skipping it, but if you're anything like me you might read it and think "that was okay but it felt like a bit of wasted potential, I wonder if the other books are better", in which case I would definitely recommend giving the next ones a chance.
Second book is a very fun mystery. Probably has the best character in all of Asimov's fiction overall.
Third book has a lot of pic related and relies a lot on a mind control gimmick, but it's still good.

Overall it's a space opera that spans multiple centuries on a galactic scale in less than 700 pages. That alone is impressive, but you should expect a lot of broad strokes and not a lot of fine detail.