Kaplan
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I did catch the tv series and I quite liked it - unlike the few reviews I saw. I guess part of the critique it got, was due to it being rather different from the books, but I've no problem with that; I don't mind if an adaptation does its own thing (and while Foundation was a good read, I could see how it wouldn't necessarily work as a tv series as written - that would probably have felt too disjointed due to its nature of a 'fix up novel' based on short stories released over a few years, as it was - just like a lot of Golden Age SF).Foundation is so great. Wish i could read it again for the first time.
The apple tv series does a good job with it, if that is your thing.
Btw, for anyone interested in the history and development of literary Science Fiction I can recommend these bite(byte?)-sized, well written videos:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5AuEhpcGAo4ngmSDKuFgZZx
Based on the info there plus insights from a lot of reviews - as well as some top 10, 50, 100 lists - I've recently purchased some 50+ SF books that I'm working my way through - spanning the years from 1895 to 2019, but primarily dealing with the (supposedly best) period from 1950 to 1990.