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Robot/Empire/Foundation. Book #11: Chronologically the fifth book in the Foundation series, but the last published book of the original Foundation trilogy released in 1953. Another book essentially made up of novellas - the first Search by the Mule, is the a long epilogue to the last novella in the previous book as The Mule goes out all guns blazing in his quest for the Second Foundation; the second Search by Foundation, sees a galaxy where The Mule's actions appear to have doomed The Plan, thus encouraging external forces to go after Foundation; whilst in the Foundation itself, a small group of conspirators have began to see Second Foundation as a major threat!

Very 1950s grand adventure style stories overlaid with the wonderful psycho-history concept, as Asimov plays with the idea of a society that to a degree has become reliant on The Plan and lost it's mojo as a result. Also, pretty cool for a book published in the 1950s, is the that the key protagonist in the second novella, is a 14 year old girl! This, and the previous books, read much better as a trilogy, and not so well independently. Still, an interesting and at times gripping tale - 8 out of 12, Four Star read.

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