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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 13 2019, @01:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the cell-ular-automaton dept.

March: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis Taylor

Discuss The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein in the comments below.

Fiasco was translated into English in 1988 by Michael Kandel:

Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. The failure to communicate with an alien civilization is the main theme of the book.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by choose another one on Wednesday February 13 2019, @09:09AM (2 children)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 13 2019, @09:09AM (#800542)

    > Ah, Foundation, the mind screw that never ends.

    It does end, it just ends in a very messy attempt to tie most of his earlier his books in together - something which was unnecessary, inevitably unsatisfactory and (for me) degrades the earlier works. I wish Asimov had never written it.

    But we're talking Heinlein here - he was more into a different type of screw...

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:43AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:43AM (#800559) Homepage Journal

    A better sequel was Donald Kingsbury's "Psychohistorical Crisis", which had the Foundation series' serial numbers filed off, so to speak. Hari Seldon was, for example, never mentioned by name.

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday February 13 2019, @01:46PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday February 13 2019, @01:46PM (#800587) Homepage Journal

    > Ah, Foundation, the mind screw that never ends.

    It does end, it just ends in a very messy attempt to tie most of his earlier his books in together - something which was unnecessary, inevitably unsatisfactory and (for me) degrades the earlier works. I wish Asimov had never written it.

    But we're talking Heinlein here - he was more into a different type of screw...

    Given that the original Foundation stories were written in the 1940s [wikipedia.org] and the first publication of the collected storeis as the "Foundation Trilogy" was in 1952, while the subsequent books were all written and published in the 1980s/1990s, it's not surprising that there were significant differences in focus.

    I've read them all, and found that the later novels did try to pull too much of Asimov's "robot" stories into them. At the same time, the initial trilogy can and does stand on its own as pretty darn good.

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr