[Asimov's] Foundation series is much beloved by many SF fans, although it suffers from a ubiquitous and debilitating dryness of tone. It is almost entirely composed of dialogue, often of an expository or explicatory nature; there is little description, a fact which renders the sequence visually inert; and the characterisation is rudimentary. Why do so many fans love it?
A. Roberts, The history of Science Fiction (2005), 197
I love it. It's proper grand concept Science Fiction, though the maths is all wrong.
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