Jewl W. (wallja99) reviewed on 8/31/2009 + 56 more book reviews

It's a prequel, of course, but in realtime it was the last book written in the series.
This book is a part of Asimov's Foundation series it talks about events taking place between "Prelude to Foundation" and "Foundation" and it helps pull those two books together.

The novel consists of four parts, each separated by about ten years.Forward the foundation is a biography of Hari Seldon, filling in the areas of his life not previously covered in Prelude to foundation.

Asimov uses this book to tie together his robot books starring R. Daneel Olivaw with the foundation series. Daneel is a major political figure, but it is Hari who is the dominant character. The story is set on the imperial capital of Trantor, and Seldon is both a mathematics professor and the first minister to Emperor Cleon.

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