![]() ![]() Since I can't rate the second book 3 stars, I have to downrate this one to 1 star. The physics didn't match Asimov's and Bear had to spend quite some time at the beginning of his novel correcting several things Benford had done. ![]() P.S.: After reading the next one, I even had to downrate this first. ![]() Though the next one is ALSO from the second trilogy. Not the worst book I've ever read but definitely not good and not really canon either (surprising, considering the Asimov estate sanctioned this second trilogy). It might have worked in a different scifi story but definitely didn't have a place here because the implications and consequences would have been HUGE so it also creates a continuity error if you ask me. This resulted in the entire story not feeling as if it belonged at all.Īdded to this is the weird-ass plot point of the two sims encountering ancient aliens that left the physical plain once the robots arrived on Trantor 20k years ago and terraformed it for humans that completely threw me. Not only was the audio book narrator (as well as the audio recording, quality-wise) really bad, Benford also didn't manage to hit the right tone at all. I gotta say that I was unimpressed with this book. In the end, as we know from the second official book of the series, Hari defeats the High Council member and accepts his appointment as First Minister. In the end, the author goes a bit overboard with what the sims do in Trantor's version of the internet (called Mesh), what they encounter there and how that helps Hari. They were created, amongst other things, to decide the debate about whether mechanical beings with artificial intelligence should be built or not and if so, whether they should receive full citizenship (which neatly ties back into the robot stories that is also important here because of Dors and Daneel). Two such sims are called Voltaire and Joan (of Arc). In the meantime, we see more of the project that will result in the Seldon Plan but also AI research and the evolution of sims. There is a powerful member of the High Council who doesn't want Hari to become First Minister which eventually means that Hari and his wife have to flee Trantor to escape him (resulting in their interesting experience of VR). This first one takes place during the events in Forward the Foundation and details how Hari came to accept the Emperor's appointment to First Minister. None of the books were penned by Asimov himself, but somehow my buddy-reader still got me to read them. This is the first book in the so-called "second Foundation trilogy". ![]()
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