We see another few Seldon Crises and how the Foundation and its leader navigate them according to Seldon Providence. In this book–again, following historical precedence–we see what happens after the Foundation becomes the de facto Empire, having conquered those competing interests in volume 1 to find themselves now looking very much like Empire they hated. The first book saw the Foundation come out victorious over several enemies due to the careful planning of the mathematician-prophet Hari Seldon, who anticipated a series of what became known as “Seldon Crises” based on the natural profession of nations.
In this book, we continue the history of the Foundation–the eponymous organization created in the first book as a haven for human knowledge in anticipation of the Galactic Empire’s imminent collapse. So rather than feeling like a short story collection, it feels more like a proper novel. It doesn’t cover as much time, it’s not as many small stories, but a few larger chunks of narrative. I appreciate how Asimov, in this book breaks the formula of his previous book a bit.
I think this is a “better” novel than the first, though it is not as “interesting” or impactful as the original Foundation novel, hence the lower rating.
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