{"id":26176,"date":"2022-09-16T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26176"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:02:21","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-foundations-edge-by-isaac-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/09\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-foundations-edge-by-isaac-asimov\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Foundation&#8217;s Edge by Isaac Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1443,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/cceb342f-9f84-4e5f-9a6c-2230d8b32067&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>43\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/cceb342f-9f84-4e5f-9a6c-2230d8b32067\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1983 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t find this one to be a strong as the original trilogy, and Asimov\u2019s writing style doesn\u2019t seem to work for me in the context of other Hugo winners published around this time as much as it does with his earlier works. He\u2019s still a very good SF writer, but more obviously one of an earlier era, in both style and in his fumbling around with female characters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ia-fe-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Foundation's Edge\" title=\"ia-fe.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s still a very good SF writer, but more obviously one of an earlier era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2012,3313,2060],"class_list":["post-26176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-isaac-asimov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51251,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions\/51251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}