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Originally Posted by ghost8772  Foundation I found hard to keep with, I know it was written for a weekly publication, but felt extremely disjointed. |
Eh?
Weekly publication????
No, these were originally published as separate stories in
Astounding Science Fiction, a
monthly magazine... but they weren't published back-to-back, either. They were spaced out between 1942 and 1950, and
Foundation itself is comprised of the first four stories in the set (the other two are made up of two novelettes each). Anyone interested in seeing the exact information on dates of publication, etc., can find it at the end of
The Early Asimov.
As for it feeling disjointed... I would disagree with it being disjointed (though it obviously struck you that way), but it is episodic -- intentionally so. A great deal of the series is that... as are several other related books. (For that matter, so are Cliff Simak's
City and Jack Williamson's
The Humanoids....) It's a technique that allows for covering vast periods of time and changing cultural norms in short compass, by a sort of temporal cross-sectioning.....