In the first book – created largely from a collection of four short stories written in the 1940s – every major character was a man, and the one time a woman seems like she might have a role to play, she gets distracted by some sparkling high-tech jewellery. That is probably for the best, as even when I read the books as a young teenager in the 1980s, much of his work struck me as sexist. In the episodes I have seen so far, the story seems to be harnessing the most interesting of his ideas without sticking too closely to the original plot.
The aim is to create a repository for knowledge and technology that will survive the coming centuries of galactic war and barbarism.Īs a committed Asimov fan, I was delighted to learn that the Foundation books had finally been successfully adapted for the screen, after numerous aborted attempts. Using psychohistory, Seldon can see that all this will end in the collapse of civilisation, yet the only people who believe him are the few other mathematicians who understand his language.įortunately, his own science lets Seldon manipulate events in order to send settlers to a new colony – the Foundation of the title – on a barren and overlooked planet in the galaxy’s furthest corner. He won’t relinquish power even to death, having created a series of his own clones to govern sequentially as each body ages and dies.
The galaxy is ruled by a dissolute Emperor whose megalomania leads him to unwise decisions when dealing with rebellious planets in the Empire’s outer reaches.
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