Starting in the middle of a series is a crazy idea but read the book. You in a world of low intelligent thanks to a disease that kills any child of high intelligent. One of the main character Klis suffered as a child. Lucky for the robots she and a boy called Brann survived this. The robots they to get these two to help the change of the world. The story is deep and philosophy like. A bit too deep to read.

You know Greg Bear is on my good graces when the first chapter of Foundation and Chaos mentions that wormholes are seldom used now. Well, there goes that bad idea from Foundation's Fear.Foundation and Chaos takes place about 30 years after the events of Foundation's Fear and somewhere between the final chapters of Forward the Foundation and Foundation's Part 1: The Psychohistorians. In the original Foundation there's a trial involving Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick, and this book offers some conte...

ENGLISHIt is always complicated when an author adapts or continues another's work. In this case, it is a complete success. Greg Bear has been zealous to be e worthy of Asimov´s legacy. The effort that an author is likely to take to get into such a complex universe might be significant. He succeeds in perfectly generating the undertone and the context and creates a worthy extension of the Foundation Universe.GERMANEs ist immer so eine Sache, wenn ein Autor das Werk eines anderen adaptiert oder fo...

I finished reading "Foundation and Chaos" by Greg Bear. This is an authorized part of the Asimov Foundation series . Once again we get into the details, filling out the story about how the Foundation got started. The original series started off rather abruptly with a new character, placed on trial and an older character that seems to know what is going on. The judgement is exile and suddenly you are on another planet, wondering how it all happened. Foundation and Chaos provides that information,...

This is such a super rubbish book. I am actually very disappointed I read it. Some reviews of post-Asimov Foundation said that Fear was so rubbish that it’s best just to skip to this one so I did. But it was a mistake to bother with this at all. If anything it has tainted my lasting images of Asimov's wonderful time-spanning saga. Daneel is much crueler in this than in any Asimov story, he's ruthless and really is laid out as a blight on humanity. Brain-fever to make mankind less innovative and

To me, this reads as a much better book than the first in the trilogy that continues the middle years of Hari Seldon's career. Of course, these books are running up against two rather major obstacles. They are supposed to continue Asimov's legacy. So far, it's been rather hit-or-miss. How do we judge these? Do we go by Asimov's simplicity of style and clarity? Or do we go by the fundamental ideas and the spirit of the thing?Mind you, if I had read this novel without any association to Asimov's F...

I almost gave this two stars until I realized how utterly pointless the book was. Nothing in the story advances the plot of the Foundation Series until the last 10 pages or so.The "sims" were (thankfully) largely downplayed after their disastrous introduction in Foundation's Fear. There was no VR immersion nonsense either. It also wasn't nearly as long (albeit still 350 pages or so too long in my opinion...). So in these regards, it was not as bad as Fear was.But, there were robots. Tons and ton...

This book is annoying on many levels:Overall thoughts - this was not a journey where the reader is carried along by a quest and comes to a resolution by the end. This was a "glad it's over" story. A book should be a collection of words greater than the sum of the total. Foundation and Chaos was the opposite. Asimov gives the sensation of a rich and vast universe with his Foundation series. With this book the words are there but the meaning is lost and the reader is left looking through a small p...

Does some damage control on what Benford did to the series in the first book before it gets going but I'd give this series a pass unless you're a fanatical completionist.

‘In ‘Foundation and Chaos’, one of science fiction’s greatest storytellers takes one of its greatest stories into new and fascinating territory. Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation series is back. Hari Seldon, approaching the end of his life, is on trial for daring to predict the Empire’s fall. At the same time, final preparations are under way for the long-anticipated migration to Star’s End. But R Daneel Olivaw, the brilliant robot entrusted with this great mission, has discovered a potential en...

This book is better written than it's predecessor in the trilogy. It follows the characters more smoothly and one get's a feel for the complexity of what is happening. Unfortunately, the complexity also contributes to the difficulty I had following who the characters actually were. I found myself chapter after chapter flipping back through the book to find a character's name so I would know how to associate them with the current part of the plot. Never the less I found the character's more engag...

This second novel in the second Foundation trilogy was better than the first, but still not really my cuppa.The events take place simultaneously to the ones in the first part of Asimov's original novel Foundation. One part of the novel details Hari's struggle with the Commission of Public Safety that we get in Asimov's book (honestly, I wouldn't have needed so many details). The other, and to me more important part, tells of Daneel's struggle because more and more robots are against his efforts

I completed Foundation and Chaos in a few weeks, reading mostly in the late evening or in stolen minutes during weekends. By contrast, I took months to finish the first entry in this trilogy, Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford. Benford's plodding, tedious pacing and fragmented plot did not inspire confidence in the rest of the series but Greg Bear turned that around. I was eager to return to Foundation and Chaos everyday and for as long as possible. Well conceived plot, excellent pacing, and s...

Foundation and Chaos is book two of the Second Foundation Trilogy is rather different to book one. For a start Bear sticks more faithfully to the Foundation universe as described by Asimov. How important that is will vary depending on the reader. More importantly, the plot of this book feels more cohesive, resulting in a more entertaining read.The Second Foundation Trilogy covers the life of Hari Seldon, his invention of psychohistory and his setting up of the two Foundations. This particular bo...

I read the Foundation Series as a teenager and with "Foundation and Earth" I thought there could be nothing more that could be achieved beyond that book. So, when I came across the books that were published ostensibly as an authorised extension to the foundation saga - It was something amounting to sacrilege!! I could barely control myself whenever I caught a glimpse of any of the pretenders. It was like Mammon had won the battle and Asimov's legacy would soon be muddled.Well, time does mellow o...

This book adds background and detail to the trial scene at the beginning of Asimov's 'Foundation' and brings some real depth to the character of Hari Seldon who, in the orginal trilogy is given no background at all, despite being the driving force behind the creaion of the Foundation itself. The author does not try to imitate Asimov's style, something I was grateful for as it seldom goes well when writers do that. (Please don't make me think of the abyssmal conclusion to the Dune series!) I thro...

As an original devotee of the series that prompted this and the other two Foundation novels, I thought Bear did quite a good job of capturing the background and characters as well as a believable evolution of the storyline. At the same time, quite readable, which isn't a bad thing.

great read...

Compared with the novel that came before in this series, this one was phenomenal!Foundation and Chaos: The Second Foundation Trilogy is clearly a secondary book in a trilogy. It advances the story arc and sets up the crisis to be resolved in the third novel, without actually answering many questions itself. This novel was a faster read than Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1), and seemed to dovetail very nicely with the initial vignette in Foundation.I was thrilled to see Dors back...

We know from Asimov's original Foundation trilogy that one of the seminal events in the life of psychohistorian Hari Seldon was his trial for treason against the Empire, which forced the thousands of academics working on his Encyclopedia Galactica to move from the capital world of Trantor to the remote planet Terminus, where they formed the core of the Foundation that would shorten the Long Night when the Empire collapsed. In this second volume of Greg Bear's Second Foundation trilogy, he fills