Foundation Vocabulary
‘Foundation’ featured the articulation of real-world political concepts, the creation of unique expression-rich vocabulary, and the introduction of naturally inclined characters.
‘Foundation’ is a novel that tells the story of the five different eras that followed the fall of an empire that had stood for 12,000 years.
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Each part of the novel gives a different story but progresses chronologically and tells the story of how the Foundation struggles to steer humanity through times of crisis.
Before it existed as a novel, ‘Foundation’ existed as a series of five stand-alone stories. In 1941, Isaac Asimov was a 21-year-old Chemistry graduate at Columbia University. With Europe in flames from the war, something else seemed to be on Isaac’s mind. He was on his way to meet John Campbell to pitch the idea for a new story he had. Before going to meet John, he had already sold five short stories. Before meeting Campbell, Isaac Asimov had to invent an idea for a new novel.
Opening a book at random, he began to think about Empires and their decline. His attention grew to the ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ by Edward Gibbon; this sparked the idea of a Galactic Empire. On pitching his idea to John Campbell, the work for the creation of ‘Foundation’ began leading to the submission of the first story on September 8, 1941. Over the years, the stories that would make up the Foundation trilogy got written, and after eight years, he submitted the last section of the Foundation Trilogy.
Being one of the first novels to give an extensive story about the fall of a galactic civilization, ‘Foundation’ has become one of the best novels to be created in the science-fiction genre. After publication, the novel began inspiring writers; this formed a foundation for writers like Frank Herbert, who wrote ‘Dune.’
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‘Foundation’ is the novel that started the idea of interstellar empires that many science-fiction books use today. The story interwove politics with themes of religion and fate; this made it a blueprint for many science-fiction stories about politics and power dynamics in technologically advanced fictional societies.
‘Foundation’ featured the articulation of real-world political concepts, the creation of unique expression-rich vocabulary, and the introduction of naturally inclined characters.