Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy) Book

Isaac Asimov spent the latter years of his writing career turning the various space opera universes of his early work into a single coherent storyline--behind the Psychohistorical Foundations and their master plan to rebuild the Galactic Empire plots the altruistic robot, R.Daneel Olivaw. Since his death, the gaps in his vast scheme of historical movements have been gradually filled in by friends and admirers; this third in the series of novels authorised by his estate--the others being Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford and Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear--deals with the old age of Hari Seldon, inventor of Psychohistory and the Foundations. His work is done, his wife is supposedly dead and he is waiting for the end-- and yet the restless intelligence that has shaped human destiny cannot rest. David Brin takes some interesting risks with this material, patching in books that Asimov never got round to reusing and asking some pertinent ethical questions about the whole enterprise. He brings to Asimov's universe his own sense of the vastness and strangeness of the physical universe and a capacity for complex and inventive plotting--this book rehabilitates the whole idea of sequels by other hands. --Roz KaveneyRead More