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Tragically Asimov never progressed the series past Foundation and Earth. Where do you think the series could've gone afterwards? I think a final trilogy detailing the completion of the Seldon Plan through the establishment of the 2nd empire and first contact with a hostile intragalactic alien race would've been a neat conclusion. Final note is that I love Dors and Novi. The Mule was an interesting character as well.

>> No.22309796

>>22309783
I read those 3 books as a teenager and was very impressed

>> No.22309814

>>22309783
I have half a mind to write a fan-made duology for these ideas. Already have names for them too. Just not sure I can nail down Asimov's writing style.

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>>22309783

It depends on if Asimov still believed that the Seldon Plan should ultimately work or not. Asimov was one of the last great men fascinated by the slide-ruler who watched over Science Fiction before the artistas became the Lords of the Last Days before modernity stole the genre from us and relevancy.

His lack of worry to visual detail, writing what feels like radio plays worked really well in a series that was all about social interaction even above technology. What a marvel, a revelation it was to have something like the Second Foundation; yes the material sciences and the encyclopedia galactica are vitally important, but how often were the social sciences not seen as important, or even not something that could be approached as a science in the first place and relegated to art?

One of the all-time greats where I also agree with every naysayer about him, and the same applies to the Foundation series. One of my first real books, and a great one. I do wish that there had been even an inkling of what the end of the Interregnum would look like