Ah, the great Foundation series. This is where it all just comes together being a nerd at heart. This is when I like to sit back and enjoy some "hard" sci-fi. Many have called it boring but there's something so nice about reading endless pages of speculation on the outcome of of humanity ten-thousand years from now. The first three books in the series don't really have main characters because they just keep jumping hundreds of years into the future every couple of chapters, but by book four Asimov settled down with a few main characters. These are a few that play in my head in Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth. I mean killer dogs, robots, crumbling galactic empires, hermaphrodites with telekinesis!!! How can you not love this stuff?!?!

Golan Trevize, the cocky swaggering space ranger protagonist is played by Colin Ferrel

Dr. Pelorat, Golan's pal and old historian extraordinaire is played by William H. Macy

Bliss, the beautiful telepathic woman from Gaia who favors assimilating the galaxy into an autonomous collective and who becomes Dr. Pelorat's woman despite the fact that he's way older is played by Penelope Cruz

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