What other book might you compare Second Foundation to and why? Isaac Asimov's 'Second Foundation', for the sci fi fan i am, floats near the top of my list for all audiobooks thus far, it is intriguing, intelligent, believable, spoke with excellence by Scott Brick and exceeded expectations. Where does Second Foundation rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? I like Scott Brick as a narrator and he does a pretty good job with this. One other complaint: Asimov got pretty wordy in places, to the detriment of the story.

The envisioned technology was typical for the 1940's (computing your course across the galaxy with a slide-rule), but seems rather quaint now. It may be more enjoyable if you think of it as a history book from the distant future rather than an adventure story. The Foundation trilogy is a bit dry, and the characters are quite one-dimensional and cartoonish. After the Mule's death, the original Foundation needs the Second Foundation's help in getting the Selden plan back on track. The Mule attempts to track down the Second Foundation. In Second Foundation, the Mule has conquered the original Foundation and much of the galaxy, but the secretive Second Foundation-oriented to mental science where the first Foundation is oriented to physical sciences-lurks out there and is interfering with the Mule's plans for a new empire. The great Hari Selden has mathematically proven that the Empire will soon fall and a 30-millennium Dark Age will follow, but Selden's Foundation can shorten that time by a factor of 30. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed, before it destroys them.Īsimov's Foundation series, based on the ideas from the 'Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,' starts with a 12,000 year-old Galactic Empire. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search.

The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only 14 years old and burdened with a terrible secret. The Mule failed to find it the first timebut now he is certain he knows where it lies. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.Īfter years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins, destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction.

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov