Foundation Follow Up

It's been a while, but yes I'm still alive. Finished Foundation this week and it is one of my favorite sci fi books I've ever read. It may be my favorite book since I don't do Sci fi. For those of you that don't know Foundation is a series of books by Isaac Asimov about the decline and rebuilding of a galactic empire. Sounds geeky? Not really. It's a dense story, tightly woven showing how politics, religon and technology all shape and control society. Deep stuff, a timeless theme makes it really cool. This book doesn't have to take place in some future society on some unknown planet. I can't wait to start the second book in the series. I'm telling everyone right now that they should read this book. At least give the first one a chance and see if you like it.

ABOUT FOUNDATION:
it's the tale of the fall of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the Foundation. Pretty normal so far, except for the fact that the Foundation's destiny is guided by psychohistory, a scientific method of predicting the future, developed the the Foundation's founder, Hari Seldon. Hari Seldon plots the paths of the Foundation, from its start to, one thousand years later, its leadership of the galaxy.
In 'Foundation', the early golden days of the Foundation are told, of how the society managed to gain survival and ultimately pre-eminence in it's local sector, not through violence, but through cunning.

HERE'S FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The Foundation Series is an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-nine years by Isaac Asimov. It consists of ten volumes (about one million words), which, although they can be read separately, are closely linked to one another. The term 'Foundation Series' is often used more generally to include the Robot Series and Empire Series, which are set in the same fictional universe. They have a combined length of fourteen novels and dozens of short stories written by Asimov, and six novels written by other authors after his death. It is widely considered the best, or at least the most influential, science fiction series ever

The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon has spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell. It uses the law of mass action to predict the future on a large scale, such as of planets or empires. Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way. He also predicts that there will be a thirty-thousand-year dark age before the next great empire rises. To prevent this, he decides to create a small secluded haven of technology in a corner of the galaxy (on the planet Terminus) called the Foundation, whose job it will be to preserve knowledge after the collapse, thus reducing the time required for the next Empire to rebuild. If done properly, it will take only a thousand years before the next empire rises.