Foundation's Edge
By Issac Asimov
Rating 5/5
Genres : Science fiction, 2022-read,classics.
Marvelous! A work of pure genius!! Issac Asimov in my opinion remains the true master and peerless genius of the science fiction genre. I savored every drop of this tasty and twisty nectar that is loaded with a bountiful of surprises and wit. This book is the fourth in the Foundation book series by Issac Asimov and all of them are a huge hit. This book follows the establishment of peace and restoration of sanguinity to the universe after the Mule has been vanquished. It portrays a mind game between forces and people controlling them who are one step ahead the other- holding one knife behind the back of the other..
A little background to the foundation series and this book. Human life which has originated on earth spread far and wide colonizing millions of planets in the universe. Hari Seldon was a psychohistorian who through several algorithms and analytical estimates predicts that humanity and all the galaxies will end a bad way suffering for thousands and thousands of years if left to themselves and hence designs an intervention. He creates two foundations - groups of people - placed at the two ends of the universe who are responsible to independently and individually developing physical weaponry vs mentalic powers to their full extent. Five hundred years in the thousand year frame he has set before a second empire could form elapses and both the foundations are on a verge of mutual war. The mutant and aberrant Mule has come and he has been defeated by second foundation in the last book. The second foundation which has remained hidden till then is exposed and goes back to hiding while everyone assumes they are demolished from existence.
A man Ganlo Trevize on the Terminus planet - of first foundation - theorizes and makes noise that the second foundation is very much alive and is planning towards controlling the first foundation. He is sent to exile with an old historian professor Pelorat and under the of guise of searching for a mythical planet Earth/Gaia starts looking for the second foundation. He is followed by a second foundation Speaker from Trantor - Gendibal and his Hamish woman servant Novi. As circumstances lead them to face off each other and the mayor of first foundation outside Gaia - who actually lead them all there? Can mind games played at a master level outdo the very masters of mental tactics of second foundation??
It's a great book. And I felt this is a very refreshing story in the science fiction genre that I have read in quite sometime.
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