![]() ![]() Liberal economists adore it, weirdo tech billionaires are entranced by it, and legions of 13-year-old nerds succumb to its ultra-rationalist siren every year.īut these beloved stories took roughly 80 years to receive the big-budget visual treatment they deserve for a reason. The Hugo Awards voted Foundation as the field’s Best All-Time Series in 1966, and no Worldcon has dared to revisit the verdict since. Goyer-the mastermind behind Apple’s extravagant TV adaptation, which wraps up its first season today-declared Foundation “the greatest science-fiction work ever written,” he was not indulging in prerelease hyperbole so much as reciting the official record. Certainly nothing from the academy can approach its popular influence. ![]() Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is perhaps the definitive expression of mid-century American liberalism. This article contains spoilers through the first season of Foundation. ![]()
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