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News Foundation Adaptation Series Officially Ordered by Apple

Owain Taggart said:
I've always wondered, does anyone know how Psychohistorical Crisis came about? I mean, I know about the novella, and aside from the changes made due to it being unauthorized, everything seems to be in place to be a true sequel. I assume he at one point made a pitch for it, was rejected and they went with well-known authors instead.
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I don't know if it was ever officially pitched, but I assumed it was a case of really needing to do that Foundation sequel. :rommie: I can appreciate that, because I've got a few ideas myself. Asimov started doing prequels because he felt he had painted himself into a couple of corners, but he really hadn't.
 
It has been a while since i read it but I have a vague recollection the author seems to really like writing about young girls and people wanting to have sex with young girls?
 
JoeZhang said:
It has been a while since i read it but I have a vague recollection the author seems to really like writing about young girls and people wanting to have sex with young girls?
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Are we talking about Foundation...?
 
JoeZhang said:
It has been a while since i read it but I have a vague recollection the author seems to really like writing about young girls and people wanting to have sex with young girls?
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Huh? If anything, most of Asimov's writing was pretty sexless, at least until later in life. By his own admission, it wasn't something he considered himself very well qualified to write about. From what I recall, any female romantic interests tended to be full-grown women; indeed, I recall a sequence in The Gods Themselves in which the Lunar-native female lead expressed her distaste for the idea of living in full Earth gravity because it would make her breasts sag.

Certainly in his personal life, Asimov was known for being a womanizer and a nonconsensual groper, treating women in ways that are now understood to be inappropriate if not predatory, but as far as I know, his targets were all adult women.
 
I vaguely remember a sex scene in Foundation's Edge, but with a mature woman. Can anyone confirm this?
 
I really liked the trailer, and with the positive feedback about For All Mankind, I'm thinking about getting TV+. Maybe what I need to do is upgrade my Apple TV (It's a 2015 version) when I do buy a new TV and then get a year of TV+ for free.
 
Nerys Myk said:
Did anyone have sex in Foundation? :lol:
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Perhaps in one of the prequel books written by other authors? But I don't really remember any scene with Hari Seldom doing wild orgies with underage girls... I just skipped them, maybe?
 
Skipper said:
I vaguely remember a sex scene in Foundation's Edge, but with a mature woman. Can anyone confirm this?
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that was the only one I can remember from any of the Asimov Foundation books. Don't recall reading any of the other author's entries in the series.
 
Was The Mule collecting unwilling wives?

If it began with caves of steel, then it was about a woman and her robot sex doll, who 200 years later was still on the pull.
 
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Skipper said:
I vaguely remember a sex scene in Foundation's Edge, but with a mature woman. Can anyone confirm this?
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Was there a sex scene in Foundation's Edge? I remember Trevize and Pelorat were both interested in Bliss, but I don't remember anything happening on the page. (Pelorat and Bliss, of course, become a couple.)

There are a couple of sex scenes in Foundation and Earth -- Trevize sleeps with a government official on Comporellon, and then he sleeps with one of the natives on Alpha and picks up an STD.

The most memorable sex scene in Asimov may be Lije Baley and Gladia in The Robots of Dawn.

Christopher said:
Certainly in his personal life, Asimov was known for being a womanizer and a nonconsensual groper, treating women in ways that are now understood to be inappropriate if not predatory, but as far as I know, his targets were all adult women.
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Two thorough articles on Asimov the creep, for those unaware of his history:
 
RJDiogenes said:
Asimov started doing prequels because he felt he had painted himself into a couple of corners, but he really hadn't.
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He obviously he didn't feel like doing sequels. But he could have gone in several different directions based on the hints at the end of Foundation and Earth:
Foundation and Galaxia
Foundation and Solarians
Foundation and Aliens (the most intriguing one)
Foundation and Robots (an inevitable title if he had written more books)
 
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Allyn Gibson said:
Was there a sex scene in Foundation's Edge? I remember Trevize and Pelorat were both interested in Bliss, but I don't remember anything happening on the page. (Pelorat and Bliss, of course, become a couple.)

There are a couple of sex scenes in Foundation and Earth -- Trevize sleeps with a government official on Comporellon, and then he sleeps with one of the natives on Alpha and picks up an STD.

The most memorable sex scene in Asimov may be Lije Baley and Gladia in The Robots of Dawn.



Two thorough articles on Asimov the creep, for those unaware of his history:
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Considering how prolific was Asimov, his number of sex scenes/number of pages written ratio was near to zero!
 
Just repeating this for the new comers...

The first three books are a 9 hour, full cast audio play, made in 1972 that you can find on youtube...

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Cyrus said:
He obviously he didn't feel like doing sequels. But he could have gone in several different directions based on the hints at the end of Foundation and Earth:
Foundation and Galaxia
Foundation and Solarians
Foundation and Aliens (the most intriguing one)
Foundation and Robots (an inevitable title if he had written more books)
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He didn't want Galaxia to happen, and the existence of the Encyclopedia Galactica implied that it didn't. So one option would have been Foundation and Nemesis, wherein Trevize learns that his choice of Galaxia was made based on a false assumption-- that humanity is the only intelligent species in the galaxy, and that the Second Foundation (and Daneel's influential powers) can only exist because of another intelligent species.

The other corner was Daneel needing to merge with biological life to expand his capacities because his positronic brain had been perfected to the point where quantum uncertainty was affecting the components. This is easily solved by moving his brain outside his head via networking, or just building a bigger brain. He's a robot, after all.
 
JoeZhang said:
No - Psychohistorical Crisis - which is what was being discussed when I entered the conversation.
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It's been awhile since I've read it, but there wasn't anything of the sort to my recollection. It followed Asimov's themes quite closely in that there wasn't much of anything like that to begin with. The only thing he really changes, is that he makes it a sprawling epic with a bit more depth than the average Asimov.
 
Guy Gardener said:
Was The Mule collecting unwilling wives?

If it began with caves of steel, then it was about a woman and her robot sex doll, who 200 years later was still on the pull.
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I believe it was implied that the Mule could do so but didn't with Bayta Darrell because she was nice to him without any persuasion.
 
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