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> It's hard to describe but the stories seemed to be not more than sketches without richness or detail, and many of the potentially interesting ideas were never
by sdrothrock 9y ago
> It's hard to describe but the stories seemed to be not more than sketches without richness or detail, and many of the potentially interesting ideas were never fully explored.
This could probably be attributed to its pulp origins -- it wasn't originally a set of novels, but a bunch of pulp serials that were in the same universe.
- cup-of-tea 9y agoYeah. It can't really be compared to something like Dune. It's a different format. Although I love Dune, I read most of my science fiction in short story format, so Foundation seems normal to me.