Originally Posted by
ltomo
I'm gonna jump on the sci-fi train and ask if anyone thinks it's worth it to read through The Foundation series by Asimov? I enjoyed it at first, but I hit a point where I felt like it was just The Fall of the Roman Empire...In Space!, and I lost interest. Is it mostly just an analogy for the Romans, or is there something else going on? I've read of few of his other novels and enjoyed them, though I feel like he's writes more of a political writer with a sci-fi veneer.
I will say, I thought Rip had a good comment recently about how a lot of older science fiction missed the impact that communication technology would have on humans. Makes me wonder what else modern authors are going to miss that'll seem really obvious in hindsight.
On the other hand, I thought Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game did a decent job predicting the effects of something like the internet. Ender's two siblings post anonymous essays on a public communication forum that influence the government's policies and leads Ender's brother into a political career. He basically predicted Twitter/Facebook.