I thought this was mentioned before but a quick search couldn't find it!

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/ ... oundation/

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

i'm stoked for this! I love the books. Why hasn't this gotten any replies yet?

No idea! But it has now

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

Because I wasn't posting when it was posted.

We did have a discussion about this when the news first came out. To say that I am excited about the possibilities would definitely be a major understatement!

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I don't remember ever seeing this post.



That's not how I remember the plot...

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

I haven't read Foundation in decades, though it's on my TBRR (to be reread) pile. So I really don't remember the plot or anything except that the characters I liked best weren't in the first book.

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

I confess, the teenage me was a great deal more impressed by Asimov than the adult me.

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

I never did get into Asimov's books much. I know I read the Foundation series, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it. Well, the name "Harry Seldon" pops into mind, but no other information.

Hari.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Yes, Hari.

I read them all, more than once, but it was many years ago. The editions on my shelf were printed in 1972. I know I've read them much later than that, but I can't remember when. I will definitely want to revisit them before this television version appears.

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Don't do it!!!!! Revisit AFTER the TV series!

Or not. ymmv

I'm always hypercritical of movies if I've read the book recently just beforehand.

I wonder if it will cover only the original trilogy, or the full seven book series. The two prequels, Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation give a lot of background that changes how to look at the first book, and the two sequels, Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth bring in a lot of information from the Robot series, as well as the Empire series. That would be an awful lot to cover, even in a long running TV series.

And for the record, I'm more impressed with Asimov now than I was as a teenager.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

V, I'm still fond of the Robot series, but I suspect it's mostly out of nostalgia. The adult me is a lot less likely to enjoy authors despite failing grades in "making female characters appear human, seriously, have you even met a woman before?", "extrapolating the effects of technological advances on social structures," and "spotting obvious applications of technology you just described to that other plot point." The adult me demands better.

Speaking of which, I want to see CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series on screen, now that it's possible to do justice to the atevi.

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

Oh, me, too. I haven't read them all—I bounced off Cherryh for years, no idea why—but I'm enjoying them now. Fortunately I stubbornly kept buying them, as if I knew I would someday come around.

I do have the same problem with some (many) of the old Grand Masters of SF. When I was very young I loved them for the Sense of Wonder. As I aged (and started writing my own stories, and started reading lots of SF by women and by more culturally sensitive people of all sorts), I started having problems with some beloved old favorites—Clarke, Heinlein, and Asimov among them. Their did not include women—or if there were one or two, they didn't resemble any real women I knew.

I do fondly remember the young girl in Foundation, who seemed real to me when I was a young girl; that was a new thing to me. I hope it will hold up.

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King