It enabled Asimov to apply historical themes to a genre that, virtuallyĪll of this is certainly true, but it strikes me that the epic scopeĪs utilized by Asimov presents a political/philosophical problem.Īsimov posited a future science of psychohistory, a discipline which wouldīring scientific cause and effect certainty to the field of human affairs. The epic scope, spanning thousands of years and worlds and incorporatingīillions of people, that really made Foundation so groundbreaking. Starship), the Foundation series is built upon size.
The Star Wars series is speed (iconified by the image of the accelerating He also draws one important distinction where the main foundation of Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire Asimov had read twice He particularly demonstrates the debt that the Star Wars series owes toĪsimov's vision, a vision which apparently in turn owes a debt to Edward Oliver Morton, in The New Yorker of May 17, 1999, had an excellentĮssay about the books wherein he pointed out that Asimov is really responsibleįor the concept, so prevalent in science fiction, of the Galactic Empire. Works in the history of Science Fiction and remains extraordinarily influential. Know that this last is still true, but it is certainly one of the seminal Was published as The Foundation Trilogy in 1961 and in 1966, wonĪ Hugo Award as the best science fiction series of all time. Into the three volumes: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire Respective stories were gathered together Campbell's Astounding Scienceįiction in November 1949.
The Foundation Trilogy, one of the touchstones of Science Fiction,īegan as a magazine serial in J ohn W.
I went into economics because I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, in which social scientists save galactic civilization, and that’s what I wanted to be.
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