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With this book I completed reading a series of 16 books in the order recommended as the story unravels - listed below. (Robot, Empire, and Foundation series).
Foundation and Earth offers a nice closure tying events well with the Robot series however, he only goes 500 years into the Sheldon Plan leaving the reader to wonder how the Plan worked in the end.
Although Asimov left an opening for the next book which never happened, I was not so much bothered by the cliffhanger as much by the 500 remaining years of the Sheldon Plan. One can argue those are one and the same but I did not experience it that way.
Overall Foundation and Earth was a crescendo after the other five foundation books and the one I liked the most.

The whole series: I thoroughly enjoyed the Robot series, but I had to push through some of the Empire books (Pebble in the Sky). Most Foundation books were entertaining and I wanted to go back to reading any chance i got.

I am being careful not to give anything away, or at least nothing that you could not find in common places.

I gave it fours stars instead of five because on at least one occasion I predicted what will happen. I don't always appreciate such predictability and Asimov had such an amazing imagination that he could have avoid it.

This is the recommended reading order:
1. I Robot (or The Complete Robot) [ROBOTS]
2. The Caves of Steel [ROBOTS]
3. The Naked Sun [ROBOTS]
4. Mirror Image (short story) [ROBOTS]
5. The Robots of Dawn [ROBOTS]
6. Robots and Empire [ROBOTS]
7. The Stars, Like Dust [EMPIRE]
8. The Currents of Space [EMPIRE]
9. Pebble in the Sky [EMPIRE]
10. Prelude to Foundation [FOUNDATION]
11. Forward the Foundation [FOUNDATION]
12. Foundation [FOUNDATION]
13. Foundation and Empire [FOUNDATION]
14. Second Foundation [FOUNDATION]
15. Foundation's Edge [FOUNDATION]
16. Foundation and Earth [FOUNDATION]


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Foundation and Earth Isaac Asimov 9780345339966 Books Reviews

Foundation and Earth picks up right where Foundation's Edge left of as Trevize, Perolat and Bliss continue their search for Earth. The entire story-line includes the famous wit found in all Asimov's novels but seems to pack in even more intrigue than normal as it slowly becomes clear that something even greater than the Seldon plan may be at play. The story is very fast paced making it difficult to put this book down and it stretches the imagination more than any of the previous books. Asimov uses this final book to tie in both the Robot series and the Foundation series as well as clear up many other questions left open in his prior novels. The result is a very satisfying conclusion the the Foundation series.

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For those new to the series, here are the specific seven books tied directly into the Foundation story line and their original date of publication. I read these in the order they were published and was very happy to have chosen that order. Asimov also tied in some of this other book series into this one (specifically his Robot series) thus making the entire story line a much larger volume of books.

Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Forward the Foundation (1993)
Foundation (1951)
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Second Foundation (1953)
Foundation's Edge (1982)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
Science fiction literature has been part of my reading since my early teens. My earliest readings contained, by today's standards, relatively tame sexual interludes and of course assured my continued reading. Sexuality in this example of Asimov's writing is really quite tame, but would have kept the 14 year old me entranced. The adult me is impressed with the mature sexual attitudes taken in this story.
Beyond all that Asimov provokes mature conjecture about humanity and profound philosophical conjectures about broad questions, not only of human governance, but also human interactions across different worlds and cultures. This book like many of his benefits from Dr. Asimov's excellent education and his being present at the cutting edges of physics and science during some of its most profound advances. He refers to things like the uncertainty principle in an off hand way that does require a bit from the reader.
In summary, Dr. Asimov gives us very entertaining stories interspersed with thought provoking philosophy and sophisticated scientific references. It's a very satisfying book to read.
I am an avid reader of Isaac Asimov and have re-read the three main novels time and again over the last 30 years. In those books he occasionally devolves the story into near-meaningless banter between two characters. Alas, this novel is mostly made of such banter and the plot was predictable from reading the first few chapters. Not his best work.
Asimov must have intended this to finish off his Foundation series - which it did, during his lifetime, although he did write a final Foundation “prequel” book before his death. This is why he circles back to robots (his best stories, in my opinion) in the end.

But the language is ponderous and tedious, the plot line thin and predictable, and the characters thoroughly unlikeable. I quickly got sick of “dear chap” and “old fellow,” Trevize’s constant “why did I choose this path” repetitions each chapter (the reader surely had not forgotten, but maybe Asimov the writer had), his ongoing antipathy and sniping remarks to Bliss and Fallom. Fallom, actually, is the only mildly believable and clearly sympathetic character - and is ridiculed and put down by the main character over and over again.

It’s not a boring book, and like all Asimov the science is sound. But despite having the same three characters for two straight books he never got them developed. “Classic SF” - thankfully, it’s gone now.
With this book I completed reading a series of 16 books in the order recommended as the story unravels - listed below. (Robot, Empire, and Foundation series).
Foundation and Earth offers a nice closure tying events well with the Robot series however, he only goes 500 years into the Sheldon Plan leaving the reader to wonder how the Plan worked in the end.
Although Asimov left an opening for the next book which never happened, I was not so much bothered by the cliffhanger as much by the 500 remaining years of the Sheldon Plan. One can argue those are one and the same but I did not experience it that way.
Overall Foundation and Earth was a crescendo after the other five foundation books and the one I liked the most.

The whole series I thoroughly enjoyed the Robot series, but I had to push through some of the Empire books (Pebble in the Sky). Most Foundation books were entertaining and I wanted to go back to reading any chance i got.

I am being careful not to give anything away, or at least nothing that you could not find in common places.

I gave it fours stars instead of five because on at least one occasion I predicted what will happen. I don't always appreciate such predictability and Asimov had such an amazing imagination that he could have avoid it.

This is the recommended reading order
1. I Robot (or The Complete Robot) [ROBOTS]
2. The Caves of Steel [ROBOTS]
3. The Naked Sun [ROBOTS]
4. Mirror Image (short story) [ROBOTS]
5. The Robots of Dawn [ROBOTS]
6. Robots and Empire [ROBOTS]
7. The Stars, Like Dust [EMPIRE]
8. The Currents of Space [EMPIRE]
9. Pebble in the Sky [EMPIRE]
10. Prelude to Foundation [FOUNDATION]
11. Forward the Foundation [FOUNDATION]
12. Foundation [FOUNDATION]
13. Foundation and Empire [FOUNDATION]
14. Second Foundation [FOUNDATION]
15. Foundation's Edge [FOUNDATION]
16. Foundation and Earth [FOUNDATION]