Apple TV+ 'Foundation' series production halts over coronavirus fears

Who else read the Foundation series when they were young? Hours sitting up in bed into the late hours reading Asimov, Doc E. Smith and others. Very, very fond memories of days before the Net and personal devices (including PCs).

iqatedo said:

Who else read the Foundation series when they were young? Hours sitting up in bed into the late hours reading Asimov, Doc E. Smith and others. Very, very fond memories of days before the Net and personal devices (including PCs).

I have read almost all of Asimov's science fiction, starting with the Foundation Trilogy when I was 13 years old. My mother let me join the science fiction book club which offered monthly books. As well as Asimov I read most of Clark's works, Phillip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Ursula Le Guin.

Asimov also wrote a number of sci-fi stories for young people called Luck Starr under the pseudonym of Paul French. I have most of those in my collection also

iqatedo said:

Who else read the Foundation series when they were young? Hours sitting up in bed into the late hours reading Asimov, Doc E. Smith and others. Very, very fond memories of days before the Net and personal devices (including PCs).

I recently re-read the first book, at least forty years after reading it for the first time — of course, when I was reading the trilogy in the 70s they were already classics. It is a challenging format — I suspect they will begin with the opening story of the first book, because if they don’t, there will be a riot, but they will also bring the backstory into it from the later prequels (published 1988 and 1993), which I don’t think I’ve ever read ... 

iqatedo said:

Who else read the Foundation series when they were young? Hours sitting up in bed into the late hours reading Asimov, Doc E. Smith and others. Very, very fond memories of days before the Net and personal devices (including PCs).

Yes indeed. While I read others too (Geo. O Smith/ Venus Equilateral; Heinlein, AC Clark, Schmitz) Isaac was always the fave. What was sort of tragic was how those personal devices like the PCs seemed to affect Isaac's writing. Once he got his hands on a word processor (about about 1980 or so) he seemed to stop editing. Later "Foundation" books were not as good (IMO). He wrote about breaking into the business in getting "Nightfall" published, and it was common to be paid by the word. OTOH, perhaps this is common for successful writers. Once they Hit The Big Time, publishers will take anything from them, because there is a ready audience, no editing needed. David Weber and Tom Clancy are two I know that suffered from this. Their first 1/2 dozen books really excellent. Then...crap. 

Hope the production staff stays safe, and they can resume soon. This is the one bit of content that would make me seek out Apple TV+.

Donald Kingsbury wrote an excellent sequel to the Foundation novels, much better than Asimov's later additions in my opinion, called "Psychohistorical Crisis".