Alan R Paine

@Meron35 @automaticdoor75 There is a lot of post apocalyptic and distopian science fiction about. I’ve read ‘On the Beach’ and seen the film with the dramatic scenes of a deserted San Francisco

@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.

@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.

@BeigeAgenda @FuglyDuck What about the three authorised Foundation books written by other authors since Asimov’s death?

@FlyingSquid @tdawg I heard the radio adaptation of the Foundation Trilogy when it first went out but don’t remember being very impressed The 80 episode TV adaption that’s underway sounds hard to swallow. We now have the original 3 books, two sequels, two prequels and 3 authorised books written by other authors since Asimov’s death. To understand these later books you need to know at least something about Asimov’s robot novels.

@nikt @norbert@kbin.social I agree Foundation and its associates are not very well written. But the sequel Foundation’s Edge (1982) is brilliant. He’s a whole different writer. From the same period there are The Robots of Dawn (1983) and Robots and Empire (1985). I especially like the almost philosophical discussion, in Robots and Empire, between two robots about the meaning of Asimov’s great invention, the laws of robotics.