In article <DELETEejseiler-39A447.00104021092005.TakeThisOut@news1.east.earthlink.net>, Edward Seiler <DELETEejseiler.TakeThisOut@earthlink.netuppercase> wrote:
: In article <1126632291.280395.244020.TakeThisOut@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
: sadoc.TakeThisOut@rio.com.br wrote:
:> (a) what are the requisites from "Foundation" needed in order to
:> understand "Foundation and Empire"?
: Foundation explains the basis of psychohistory, the plan for the
: Encyclopedia Galactica, the establishment of the Foundation on Terminus,
: the crises foreseen by Hari Seldon that the Foundation would face, and
: the influence of the Foundation in the shifting of power in the
: declining empire. I suppose a sufficently detailed description could
: fill you in, but you would have much more fun if you could manage to get
: a copy of it and read it instead.
There are so many editions of "Foundation and Empire" floating around
that I am not absolutely sure that this is always true, but in every
edition that I've seen, there is a preface that gives a short recapitulation
of the events of "Foundation." While I agree with Mr. Seiler that it's
more fun to read the book, the stories in "Foundation and Empire" are
sufficiently independent, and give enough background information, that
it is not absolutely necessary to have read "Foundation." Remember, these
stories appeared separately in _Astounding_ magazine over a period of
nearly a decade, so Asimov couldn't assume that the readers of any particular
story would have read the previous ones. And while there was some editing
when the stories were collected in book form, there wasn't much.
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Richard Schultz schultr.TakeThisOut@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"I've lost my harmonica, Albert."
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