Conspirational Cold War

ISAAC ASIMOV — FOUNDATION, 1951 — FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE, 1952 — SECOND FOUNDATION, 1953

In many ways as an action science-fiction trilogy, it is very interesting and fascinating. It reads like sweet lemonade though it contains no emotions at all, no feelings, no real love, no nothing humane. It is the most dehumanized science-fiction I know and at this level, it competes with Lafayette Ronald Hubbard who is by far oriented on more warlike situations, machines or robots fostering substitutes, or mechanical soldiers and torturers having no taste or distaste for blood and thus, are able to cut a prisoner into small cubes for aperitifs. Asimov is definitely more human but in no way humanistic or humane. He is a cold frozen vision of a future that will never ever be able to even be born. With this limitation in mind, you can get into it and enjoy the developments, the U-turn dramas, and the Z-slithering-slaloming direct non-straight lines of intrigue and plot. I will give a global comment now on the project of these three novels.

The three novels came out in the USA in the early 1950s. The author is a refugee in the USA who is both Jewish and Russian by origin. He has some education and thus can lure us into some sciences that he gathers and merges under the title of psychohistory. History is following a line that is…