I got this book because it seemed like a cool edition of The Foundation Trilogy. I later discovered that it glows in the dark when I turned the lights off to go to sleep.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
      4·
      1 year ago

      And don’t stop after the trilogy there’s seven foundation books in all.

      Actually just read all of Asimov while you are at it.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I mean… I wasn’t going to warn them tell them about that part…

        you know. get them hooked first, you know. then show them everything…

      • Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        All!? didnt he pen a ridiculous number of books and is one of the few to get a book in every part of the Dewey decimal system?

        • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
          1·
          5 months ago

          I’m generally avoiding books written posthumously, there’s too many examples of mediocre to poor books being made to cash in on an author’s name.

          Are they any good?

          • Alan R Paine@mstdn.social
            1·
            5 months ago

            @BeigeAgenda I’ve only read Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear. it’s pretty good but it’s about events that are happening in parallel with the beginning of Foundation so the overall saga is incredibly complicated and multi-layered. Foundation and Chaos also references the laws of robotics which are not mentioned in the original trilogy.

    • Alan R Paine@mstdn.social
      1·
      5 months ago

      @FuglyDuck @norbert@kbin.social The robot books featuring detective Elijah Bailey are all very good. The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        yes they are. (that’s, uh, why I recommended them?)

        my favorite I, Robot short is “reason”. (“Good god! a Robot Descartes!”)