#prelude to foundation

[daneelsolivaw]

theory: psychohistory was secondary to Daneel’s motivations in Prelude to Foundation, he really just latched onto Hari because he had that Elijah Baley swag

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[stained-glass-cicada]

Fuck! I was already obsessed with the foundation series but I finished prelude and its left me with that "everyone ought to read this" feeling

This was, more or less expected as a lifelong sci-fi nerd finally reading asimov, but well, you never expect the classics to be as good as they are

I am now entirely convinced that I am reading these in the precise order I would want to (foundation, foundation and empire, prelude to foundation, so far)

Because I saw Seldon as an old man, placing the final pins in his big plan, become this almost deified figure. I saw the ways he solved problems and some of his rules of psychohistory and got the set up for the second foundation

Then, just as all faith in Seldon is thoroughly shaken: Hi here's Hari, he's never had a thought looking back farther than his breakfast two days ago, please enjoy watching him get run out of town repeatedly

He will now learn a series of lessons on what humans who aren't mathematicians are like, each will show him picking up the earliest inklings of what You Know will one day become psychohistory even as he denies its practicality

[2lim3rz]

Hummin is LITERALLY deus ex machina incarnate I SWEAR

[benedictusantonius]

[2024|003] Prelude to Foundation (1988) written by Isaac Asimov

[god-of-whatever]

Foundation

I'm not far into the book yet but so far I am rooting for Hari and Dors (sorry Yanna), please don't tell me Dors is indeed secretly plotting something.

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[methodwriting]

hari seldon the token straight in dors and hummin t4t relationship. this is canon

[positronicvisions]

Eto Demerzel, First Minister to Emperor Cleon I

[daneelsolivaw]

the chetter hummin of it all

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[waffle-sorter]

"The victim of a crime" - well, first of all you haven't demonstrated that a crime took place. The accusation leveled against the protagonists is "intent to start a riot" (which, does that even have a "victim"?); the evidence presented is "you said this guy worked for the government instead of the news"; the supposed victim is neither dead nor hurt, but says he was handled roughly...

"You, as the criminals" - see above, and also they're only the accused so far.

[paulgadzikowski]

I'm rereading Prelude to Foundation right now, of all things to encounter a passage about the way empires suppress resistance by cultivating internecine conflict between progressives

Re-reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, and I remember when I read it the first time as a tween thinking, "Okay, it's kind of far-fetched that people would be so rabidly anti-knowledge, but I'll accept it for the sake of the story, " but now I look around and like, yep, Walter M. Miller was a fucking prophet.

[hazeism]

I understand you Demerzel treating Cleon I like a little poppet is the most fun ever. many tentative and shifting designs.

[positronicvisions]

Daneel Olivaw

[daneelsolivaw]

ok but i was just thinking about this

….Dors?

more dors-like hair

[yours-stevie]

Just look at her 😍