What Are You Reading ?

[Big Ears]

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire (1952, the second volume in the Foundation series. Asimov is not the most engaging writer in my experience, despite being regarded as one of the top three science fiction wrters (the others are the very engaging Robert Heinlein and Brian Aldiss). He was a prolific genius writing a copious amount of books on a range of subjects from an early age. I have found myself reading various sci-fi books recently, but I am not particularly a fan. The Foundation series is episodic probably because it was serialised in a magazine, Astounding Stories, so it is good for reading in bed, although I find myself reading more than I intended and then struggling to wake-up.

The Foundation series is about a foundation established on its own planet(s) to record mankind's knowledge in the Encyclopaedia Galactica while the galactic Empire disintegrates. However, the Foundation uses its accumulated knowledge to combat the Empire and becomes an entity in its own right. I also have a collection of Asimov's famous robot novels/ short stories to read eventually.