Friday, 6 November 2020

Foundation TV Series?

Little did I know that there is not only a trailer for a new Dune film but also a trailer for a Foundation TV series. In fact, googling discloses several items about the latter. If TV viewers are going to see Hari Seldon predicting the Fall of the Galactic Empire, then they deserve to see Dominic Flandry and Chunderban Desai discussing the Fall of the Terran Empire. Do I sound like a politician complaining that his opponent is receiving too many votes? I hope not.

In this trailer, the Foundation Trilogy is described as "the greatest sf work of all time." It unequivocally is not. Since the word, "work," not "series," is used, I cite The Time Machine as considerably better than Foundation. For "The Best SF Series?," see here. I now rate Anderson's Technic History much higher than Heinlein's Future History.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Absolutely! Chunderban Desai's conversation with Flandry in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS, based on the work of Hord, of how civilizations rise and fall, including the Terran Empire, was much more convincing than Asimov's absurdity about the "mathematics" of psychohistory.

As a boy I was enthralled by Asimov's three original FOUNDATION books, but I came to feel dissatisfied with them by 1975. They were and are not the greatest of all science fictional "future histories." Anderson's Technic series is vastly better!

That said, I would probably watch the TV version of the FOUNDATION books. And watch to see how faithful it might be to what Asimov actually wrote.

Ad astra! Sean