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Yeah, unfortunately I felt that the last few novels in the series were uninspired, maybe even lazy.
by mfro 1y ago
Yeah, unfortunately I felt that the last few novels in the series were uninspired, maybe even lazy.
- vips7L 1y agoHe didn’t want to write them. Gnome Press owned the original series and he didn’t get any royalties for them. In 1961, his current publisher Doubleday acquired them and for 20 years he told them no to writing more Foundation books. In 1981 Doubleday said they would pay him 10 times his normal rate and that is when he wrote Foundation’s Edge. This was all printed in the front of my copy of Foundation and Earth. Titled as “The Story Behind the Foundation”. I plan on reading the Robot series next.
- mfro 1y agoThis makes so much sense in retrospect. I think the review I wrote of the last novel was that I felt it was a cash grab.
- vips7L 1y agoFoundation and Earth (the last of the sequels) had some good sections. Like when they visited the Spacer worlds and the mystery around Earth. But in the end that mystery just fell flat. I personally felt like the worst part was the dialog between Golan and Bliss/Gaia; they just droned on in debate about isolates bs galaxia. I think I could have overlooked that if there was something to do with the Foundation at all in the book.