Foundation or Hitchhiker's Guide

[YankeyMCC]

Poll question: Foundation or Hitchhiker's Guide

Just to provide a literary counterpoint to the B5 vs DS9 poll.

Asimov's Foundation and Galactic Empire novels protray's an orderly galactic civilization.

Adam's Hitchiker's stories present the idea of any order in something as huge and complex as a galaxy full of life as rather silly...and funny! :)

Which do you think is closer to the truth (I don't mean is there a galactic civilization or will there be, I mean which is more likely if the galaxy was filled with life capable of interacting with each other - order or chaos)

[krispos42]

1. Hitchhiker...

There's an awful lot of nothing to get lost in, and mad consumerism is portrayed pretty well in "Hitchhiker". You know it's out future... :-)

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. I've actually never read either.

:hide:

Do I have to turn in my Sci-Fi Geek Creds now?

[YankeyMCC]

3. Hang your head in shame

Get thee to a book store!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. I tried reading Foundation. I really did.

I kept not understanding it.

And I tried to play the INOFCOM Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game. Does that count?

[YankeyMCC]

5. Foundation can be difficult

unless you're used to the older style and even then it's very much more exposition than typical. Still it's worth it - I think so at least.

Perhaps if you work yourself up to it by reading the Robot and Empire novels which are more "modern" and character driven. Or even the later additions to the Foundation series that precede the original stories in the story time line like "Prelude to Foundation" and "Forward the Foundation".

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I love both

for different reasons , but Hitchhikers is just so cool!!!!

[YankeyMCC]

7. Me too nt

[Orsino]

8. Foundation.

Having recently read Ward and Brownlee's Rare Earth, I'm persuaded that intelligent life will be very rare. If we ever manage to spread across the galaxy, it'll be because no one else out there is that far advanced. Or very few races, anyway. It ain't gonna be an Adams-style menagerie.