#Prelude to Foundation

[larmegliamori]

Prelude to Foundation is fun actually. The protagonist is a mathematician. He regrets creating his theory more and more as the story progresses (even though, with each chapter, he gets closer to start developing it seriously). He's generally a meek person but manages to run into (or throw himself into) problems every time he steps outside. His companion is a historian trying to keep him safe. She was ready to end a man's whole career. She learns how to fight with knives and bests a man by cutting his mustache (and some skin). He tries to flirt with her in the most disastrous way ever. A street urchin gives them a couple favors and decides to adopt them as family. The Mayor of a powerful sector speaks the same lingo as said street urchin. The matematician witnesses a whole coup in his nightgown. Pulling the strings there's a savvy journalist trying to hide the mathematician from the Prime Minister. Those two are actually the same person. They're also a robot.

[daneelsolivaw]

cant get over chetter hummin/daneel saying “that sounds uncommonly ugly” like not “thats strange” or “that is a peculiar sounding hairstyle”. uncommonly ugly. advanced fashion. you could buy some. love that mischievous enquiring twink.

[someday-dreamlands]

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑰𝒔𝒂𝒂𝒄 𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒗. 

𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝑻𝒊𝒎 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆

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[hazeism]

"Haze, where have you been?"

1. my pen broke 2. actually i have no excuses. umn. hi

[2lim3rz]

Hummin is LITERALLY deus ex machina incarnate I SWEAR

[cadmuslabs777]

The Wye/Why jokes always get me.

[benedictusantonius]

[2024|003] Prelude to Foundation (1988) written by Isaac Asimov

[god-of-whatever]

Foundation

I'm not far into the book yet but so far I am rooting for Hari and Dors (sorry Yanna), please don't tell me Dors is indeed secretly plotting something.

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[methodwriting]

hari seldon the token straight in dors and hummin t4t relationship. this is canon

[larmegliamori]

Prelude to Foundation but it's the Discord Chat between Dors and Daneel, commenting on every event of the book -ft. @the-l-spacer

[daneelsolivaw]

Recently discovered a new artist (Kacy Hill) and she’s so Dors coded like

[positronicvisions]

Eto Demerzel, First Minister to Emperor Cleon I

[azra-idek]

OK so thinking about something further. Prelude to Foundation and Robots and Empire spoilers under the read more tag.

Daneel says, at the end of Prelude, that Giskard invented the Zeroth law, and Giskard was acting in accordance with that when he deactivated. However, it was Daneel who coined the Zeroth Law, tried to convince Giskard of it, and Giskard's inability to wholly grasp it is what ultimately led to his deactivation due to his actions against the First Law.

Why would Daneel rewrite history in this method? It seems of no benefit to me superficially: perhaps only sentimentally to grant Giskard the authorship to the glorious Zeroth Law. I thought it was maybe a case of the author simply forgetting who did what, but Robots and Empire was written in 1985, and Prelude in 1988, so surely that is not the case.

If it is some significance in later times, just tell me that it is - I'm still reading! I just can't think it would have any true bearing.

[hazeism]

I understand you Demerzel treating Cleon I like a little poppet is the most fun ever. many tentative and shifting designs.

[mirtapersonal]

moodboard time 

This one probably won’t make sense to anyone else because I did it largely based on feeling. I don’t know why, but this book always felt beige, dry, earthy and comfy to me. In texture and density closest to the halva in top left corner. Not all books leave this kind of sensory impression on me, idk why this one does

also bottom middle is “daneel colours” in my brain. well, the blue should be a bit more desaturated maybe