[telescope115]

I haven’t read the Foundation Trilogy, so I don’t know enough to be as critical as you, but you’re not the first person that’s criticized it.People just can’t leave the original story alone. Instead of coming up with their own ideas, they have to use others’ stories and change them. It’s laziness.

[Bernard]

When you get around to the original Foundation, don't go past the trilogy. Asimov had to get talked into it, and the result shows it.

The original trilogy, though, is solid gold. I'm getting ready to go through it again, for about the 10th time. The first time was while I was in college, and it was my introduction to quality sci-fi.

Reading that led to devouring almost everything the Good Doctor wrote, then Heinlein, Farmer, and a collection of post-apocalyptic stories, as well as Brunner. Of course, all of that spoiled me for the run-of-the-mill stuff.