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Isaac Asimov's Foundation: Book 1 (Digital Audiobook)

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  • The Galactic Empire is receding, and Hari Sheldon has seen the future: 30,000 years of ignorance and brutal war. In an effort to preserve knowledge and technology, he gathers the best scholars and scientists across the Empire and brings them to a bleak, remote planet. But nearby warlords threaten their new society, and the best minds of the universe must take up arms or surrender. Scott Brick's straightforward and confident narration keeps listeners grounded in this sprawling science fiction classic
  • Written by: Isaac Asimov
  • Read by: Scott Brick
  • Run Time: Approx. 8-Hours & 41 Minutes

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  • This is the best available price for this unabridged audiobook in the market
  • This is Isaac Asimov's first classic novel in the science fiction masterpiece, the Foundation Series
  • This series also features the Apple TV+ series; nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
  • Offer valid while promotion last
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  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Chirp Books has Isaac Asimov's Foundation: Book 1 (Digital Audiobook) on sale for $0.99.

Thanks to Staff member Tooturntt3 for finding this deal

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About the Product
  • The Galactic Empire is receding, and Hari Sheldon has seen the future: 30,000 years of ignorance and brutal war. In an effort to preserve knowledge and technology, he gathers the best scholars and scientists across the Empire and brings them to a bleak, remote planet. But nearby warlords threaten their new society, and the best minds of the universe must take up arms or surrender. Scott Brick's straightforward and confident narration keeps listeners grounded in this sprawling science fiction classic
  • Written by: Isaac Asimov
  • Read by: Scott Brick
  • Run Time: Approx. 8-Hours & 41 Minutes

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • This is the best available price for this unabridged audiobook in the market
  • This is Isaac Asimov's first classic novel in the science fiction masterpiece, the Foundation Series
  • This series also features the Apple TV+ series; nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
  • Offer valid while promotion last
Additional Note
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Free on Libby, overdrive
+ Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy was adapted in eight hour-long episodes by the BBC, first broadcast in 1973, and repeated in 1977 and 2002.-WikiPedia

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads...on-trilogy
You can watch this on AppleTV+. Pretty good actually.

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Quote from zoglog :
It's impressive how the show is brigaded down so hard on reviews from die hard fans of the books. I found the show rather enjoyable as well
Yes. And the plot isn't that different. They made decisions to make it film-able and less boring.

Let's face it the books can drag and people act like other shows cover 1200 years no problem. Yes let's just confuse everyone and please only the hardcore readers. The show is great
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burntorangehorn
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Quote from cohiba :
Neither did I, but after I got The Hobbit (Serkis version) for free, I decided that this was worth a buck too.
Same. I had never heard of Chirp before seeing that Hobbit deal the other day, but now I have that and this. I usually listen to literary analysis videos or podcasts while on my rower, but I'm warming to audiobooks now.
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank MeatCatalog

Recently read all 7 books. My take:

Books 1, 3, 5 are outstanding with 2 and 4 being fairly boring and very weird plot advancers. Interestingly, Asimov was only ~22 when he wrote the first 3.

The prequels (books 6,7 in the order they were written) are absolute garbage and are totally not worth reading. Asimov obviously was in decline (near his death) and must have gotten a huge pay day to write them in his old age. Some may disagree but just my $0.02.
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Quote from MeatCatalog :
Recently read all 7 books. My take:

Books 1, 3, 5 are outstanding with 2 and 4 being fairly boring and very weird plot advancers. Interestingly, Asimov was only ~22 when he wrote the first 3.

The prequels (books 6,7 in the order they were written) are absolute garbage and are totally not worth reading. Asimov obviously was in decline (near his death) and must have gotten a huge pay day to write them in his old age. Some may disagree but just my $0.02.
Most people give him credit for being ahead of his time. I liked the show and it wouldn't make sense to have a bunch of aha moments on the screen. It's like what are we gonna do? Nothing... Aha that's the secret. You can write that out. But it doesn't take up much screen time.

I skim some of the boring parts in the book.
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Quote from justshovejayohbe :
Free on Libby, overdrive
Yes, but I had to wait 8 weeks for my reserve to come in at my local library for this first volume of the Foundation series. Not so much for the later volumes, but just don't get your hopes up that you will be listening on Libby before the New Year.

For the benefit of those who don't know that, Libby is an app through which you can borrow e-books and audio books from your library system (If they participate).
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Quote from MeatCatalog :
Recently read all 7 books. My take:

Books 1, 3, 5 are outstanding with 2 and 4 being fairly boring and very weird plot advancers. Interestingly, Asimov was only ~22 when he wrote the first 3.

The prequels (books 6,7 in the order they were written) are absolute garbage and are totally not worth reading. Asimov obviously was in decline (near his death) and must have gotten a huge pay day to write them in his old age. Some may disagree but just my $0.02.
Book 1 to 4 are very good. I rate those four books as the best sci-fi ever created. Book 5 and the two prelude suck. TV show sick too.
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Quote from yeti79 :
The books are very different than the show. Personally I like the books a lot better but both are good in their own way.
I'm looking for a good deal on the books since long.

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Quote from MeatCatalog :
Recently read all 7 books. My take:

Books 1, 3, 5 are outstanding with 2 and 4 being fairly boring and very weird plot advancers. Interestingly, Asimov was only ~22 when he wrote the first 3.

The prequels (books 6,7 in the order they were written) are absolute garbage and are totally not worth reading. Asimov obviously was in decline (near his death) and must have gotten a huge pay day to write them in his old age. Some may disagree but just my $0.02.
This seems accurate with my recollection

Honestly the only Asimov books I ever got into but even then, barely. The psychohistory is all that really interests me
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Quote from skildner :
Well sure, if you have a library card and your library carries/has access to this audiobook. P'shaw
The library membership fees are suspiciously low IMO; I suspect they'll stick it to you down the road by being nice to you. Some have even cancelled all late fees to lure you in (slowest money laundering operation ever). Place has to be a front for education or something. Heck one of my local branches is closing for six months for renovations (will include a Makerspace when reopened). Total scam if you like paying for stuff you can "borrow" from the library. Sheesh.
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If you think that Foundation and Earth ties up everything he wrote from the Foundation series and the Robot series into a nice ending, it makes it all worth while to me. The books span 20,000 years or so.

But in reading his autobiography, towards the end, he would force himself to write 20 pages of the fiction stuff and then he would allow himself to write 10 pages of non-fiction that was his preference at the time. I am going through Counting the Eons right now and it is really fun to read his non-fiction.

I have not watched the Foundation series on Apple, because it seemed a hard series to adapt to TV, but if they renewed it, they mush have done something right. I will check it out.
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Quote from justshovejayohbe :
Free on Libby, overdrive
Yea but thanks to the show, there's like a 2-month waitlist now OMG
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Quote from Ineedmoredeals :
That's unfortunate. I only enjoyed the scenes with Empire. Everything else was "NO INTELLIGENT PERSON WOULD EVER MAKE THAT DECISION"

Over and over again. Made my head hurt with how stupid the writing was
This is so true. It's like they have two completely different sets of writers. One for the Empire storyline and one for the Foundation storyline. It's extremely frustrating. I often find myself time-skipping through the Foundation stuff.
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Quote from Ineedmoredeals :
That's unfortunate. I only enjoyed the scenes with Empire. Everything else was "NO INTELLIGENT PERSON WOULD EVER MAKE THAT DECISION"

Over and over again. Made my head hurt with how stupid the writing was
I agree. I'm probably in the minority, but I don't see what all the fuss is about with this show. I'm only on episode 6, and it still hasn't really hooked me in yet. Also, acting quality is not uniform. The acting is incredible in the Empire plot (probably because of Lee Pace but others were great too), but the Terminus (Foundation) one is just cringey with all the unknowns. Jared Harris is incredible too, but he's been off-screen for too long.
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Quote from Ineedmoredeals :
That's unfortunate. I only enjoyed the scenes with Empire. Everything else was "NO INTELLIGENT PERSON WOULD EVER MAKE THAT DECISION"

Over and over again. Made my head hurt with how stupid the writing was
I definitely agree. Empire plot and acting was top notch, while the Terminus parts felt like something straight out of a crappy SyFy show.

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Quote from taka :
The library membership fees are suspiciously low IMO; I suspect they'll stick it to you down the road by being nice to you. Some have even cancelled all late fees to lure you in (slowest money laundering operation ever). Place has to be a front for education or something. Heck one of my local branches is closing for six months for renovations (will include a Makerspace when reopened). Total scam if you like paying for stuff you can "borrow" from the library. Sheesh.
I was being sarcastic mostly, but every library doesn't have access to every audiobook. They may or may not have this one. Libraries that have their own digital collections typically have a smaller...library. Libraries that are part of a larger consortium of libraries for digital media typically have have more to choose from, but longer wait times. For $.99 this may be a better option for some, especially if they plan to listen to it more than once.

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