Foundation
by IsaacAsimov
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Writer; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
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Co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink
“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
Source →“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
Source →“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
Source →“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
Source →“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
Source →“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
Source →Recommended by 9 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and Paul Graham
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Recommended by 9 sources and appears in Space Opera, Science Fiction, and Books Recommended by Paul Graham.
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in th...
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“@elonmusk My #1 book recommendation. | @kerooke Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Foundation | I loved reading it as a kid. | I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15. Books like The Moon is Harsh Mistress and Foundation used to take over my brain completely. It was like living in the future. | Lifechanging for me as a kid, and have still read it multiple times throughout my life. | Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization | Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation | sci fi reading list done. what should i read next in the last few months, read and liked: Walkaway, @doctorow Madd Adam trilogy, @MargaretAtwood Stone Sky trilogy, @nkjemisin + reread Dune and first Foundation book would love recommendations for sci fi new and old! | “It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” Isaac Asimov (Foundation) What a great book! Worth a reread!”
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