Forward the Foundation

I thought it was good but not amazing. I didn't particularly like the return to the Foundation Trilogy-esque time skips. I much prefer a story to be isolated over a day or week like in Prelude to the Foundation. Seldon was better in this book and felt more like his incarnation in Foundation. Dors unfortunately felt too one-note and lost all her character from Prelude. Raych was good and his death was quite sad. Wanda wasn't really in it for long enough but it was cool that she's the first generation of the Second Foundation.

Aging feels to be the main theme of the book. Seldon gets older and older and everyone is dying while he's still alive. He's left alone in a deteriorating Empire and ultimately Wanda leaves in order to establish the Second Foundation. It's a rather touching ending that his last words aren't about psychohistory but his love for Dors. Ultimately it's revealed to me that what touches me most about this franchise of books I've been reading for over 2 years now is that it's beautiful the relationship between intelligence, in case of Asimov, the relationship of humans and robots - Daneel & Elijah and Dors & Seldon. In the end, it's all about how we relate and live through the short time we have temporally speaking. I am happy I read these books and I think it will stay with me for a bit.