Foundation

I finished this novel around two months ago. A lot has happened in the meantime, I’ve moved house and had a baby, so my memory of the novel is a little hazy. This novel is apparently a classic and mainstay in the science fiction canon. It is the story of a colony of scientists and chronicallers(people are writing an encyclopaedia to chronicle everything) who have had to move planets. What really struck me was the lack of female characters in the story; I counted a receptionist and a nagging wife. Strange that these new colonies are able to repopulate given that scientific  developments don’t seem that advanced. Anyway, there are various plots to take over this particular colony and the story loosely follows the attempts to thwart the takeovers before they happen.  My daughter picked up the book one day and I asked her what it was about. She looked st the cover and said it’s anout a white man. Such wisdom from a two year old!