Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book Club - Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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This is a free event.
We'll meet in San Marino, CA, at the Huntington Library picnic area. It's not necessary to purchase a ticket.
Join us for our very first book club session of this new Meetup group! Our initial members voted to make this amazing classic our first. We're friends from a previous Meetup group that was called "Creative Readers Guild" where we ran events since late 2023 and all throughout 2024. We can't wait to meet you all who will be joining us for the first time! Happy New Year and here's to new adventures and friendships in 2025.
The book to read & discuss is: Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
Here are the results of our poll in Storylace.
📖 Book Description:
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire -- both scientists and scholars -- and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun -- or fight them and be destroyed.