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Isaac asimov foundation series6/28/2023 He died in 1992 but other authors have, with the blessing of the Asimov estate, written works set in the Foundation universe. Then in the 1980s, Asimov started adding books to the sequence – two prequels and two sequels. A professor of biochemistry at Boston University and the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he had been inspired by Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as Arnold Toynbee's theories about cycles of history. With them, Asimov wanted to portray the fall of some great future civilisation. But now the "unfilmable" has finally been filmed and this week an adaptation of Foundation starring Jared Harris and Lee Pace premieres on Apple TV+.įoundation began as a series of short stories in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in the 1940s and eventually became a trilogy of books published in the 1950s. Indeed, the writing of it spanned half a century. There have been several attempts to bring Foundation to the screen, but the series of books was long held to be unfilmable because the saga weaves together so many plotlines and spans centuries.
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