A review by cphenly
Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

3.0

Another fairly interesting Asimov story; he tied it in quite cleverly to the Foundation stories he had already written, and it has a vintage Asimov surprise or two at the end. (I took the advice of an Asimov descendant and went ahead and read the Foundation books in the order written, rather than in chronological order within the fabula, and I have to agree that this is the way to go if you want to get the most out of the surprises.) As with the last few I read, however, this book was desperately in need of an editor. It could easily have been 150 or more pages shorter--loads of stuff that was ultimately totally irrelevant.