This one is a hard one to review for me. The Foundation series won a Hugo Award for best All-Time series, and have been labeled as the epitome of science fiction. So there was/is plenty of hype for the series, and to be fair I've only read the first in the series. I've also read that Foundation is the weakest in the series, but I haven't read past the first book yet, so I'm going to stick with what I know at this point.
I'll admit I was a little disappointed after finishing Foundation. Foundation is made up of five short stories, and there is a lot of jumping forward quite a bit, so the characters you get to know are gone by the next part of the story.
The basic premise is that Hari Seldon uses psychohistory to predict the future of the galaxy, and the fall of the Galactic Empire. Seldon creates a Foundation at the far reaches of the galaxy, preserving knowledge and documenting this in an encyclopedia.
The overall story was good, but there just were too many things that I didn't like to rate it too high. Hopefully I feel better about the rest of the series, but Foundation was just good, not great.
My rating: 3 stars
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