From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Garrett Wollman wrote:   
   > In article <10kbehb$11og5$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > William Hyde   wrote:   
   >   
   >> I think that one of the reasons "Foundation's Edge" disappointed some   
   >> people was that Asimov had changed his mind about Empire while writing   
   >> "Second Foundation", or perhaps earlier.   
   >   
   > I think a bigger reason was that FE wasn't edited by John W. Campbell,   
   > if indeed it was edited at all.  If you liked the earlier stuff   
   > (fixups of stort stories and novellas that Campbell bought and argued   
   > over with Asimov), the "flabby" later books are what made people say   
   > Asimov had succumbed to the Brain Eater.   
      
   There were several reasons other than the one I gave.  I gave that   
   reason as it pertains to the thread, and the excessive love of some in   
   the SF world for empires. Asimov changed his mind, his readers by and   
   large did not.   
      
   On a reread of the series years ago, I was struck by how much better FE   
   is written than the earlier works. Better written but not as much fun.   
   As you note, Asimov didn't really want to write it, and perhaps that   
   accounts for a certain amount of that loss of fun SF exuberance.   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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