A long-awaited screen adaptation is one of the flagship shows of Apple TV+. You can see why it’s one of Elon Musk’s favourite books (along with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and The Moon is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein – also recommended). The Foundation series follows Hari Seldon, who is the architect of psychohistory – a branch of mathematics that can make accurate predictions thousands of years in advance, and which Seldon believes is necessary to save the human race from the dark ages. Asimov’s prose can be stilted, and betrays the attitudes of its time in the portrayal of female characters, but it has left a lasting legacy. In the Foundation series, he’s in another mode entirely, charting the rise and fall of empires in sweeping brush strokes.
Essentially, it turns into an enormous mess with factions disagreeing and wiping each other out, no matter what course of action is chosen.Asimov was a prolific writer, but many of his best works are classic short stories such as Nightfall, or The Last Question, which play out like long jokes with a punchline twist at the end.
Many join the third metro superpower, called the Hanza regime, which is a force to be reckoned with because of its overwhelming economic influence, or split off to form their own independent alliance. Other factions are either forced to pick sides or are at risk of being eliminated. As time goes on and the communities become more and more ingrained into people's lives, the tension between two factions, the Red Line and the Fourth Reich, reaches a boiling point and an all-out war begins. Some are peaceful, others are violent and, for the most part, they all disagree with each other on how society should function after the nuclear fallout.
After the war, Russian survivors take shelter in Moscow's metro system, hence the name Metro 2033.įull-fledged communities develop within each section of the metro, and all have differing ideologies. The literary version of Metro 2033 is classified as a post-apocalyptic fiction novel, and takes place after a global nuclear war wipes out most of the population.
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