In Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov delves into
psychohistory's sorta psycho history  In the prequel Prelude to
Foundation, Isaac Asimov takes us back to see how psychohistory,
the science that saved humanity, was born — and it's kind of a
crazy ride. Knife fights, mustaches, and high-level math await!
Here we are on day six of Foundation Week, a very special
Blogging the Hugos event. Today we jump back in time for Isaac
Asimov's Prelude to Foundation, from 1988. (And check out our
posts on the first five Foundation books, which all take place
after this one: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second
Foundation, 1983 Hugo winner Foundation's Edge, and Foundation
and Earth.)  (Spoilers follow.)   AW: We enter the home stretch
of our Foundation retrospective with the first of two prequels
Asimov wrote in the final years of his long career. At first
blush, they seem like a bit of an anticlimax to a series that
had always leaped forward in time, sometimes a hundred years at
a time. But they're worthwhile book