Stars End: A Foundation Podcast

Jan 18 2025 91 ep. 60 mins 16

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We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show. Now that the show is here we won't just be enjoying it, we'll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week! Hopefully, through this podcast, we'll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.

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Stars End S5E19 - We the People... Do Ordain and Establish this Podcast

Jan 18 2025 46 mins

We conclude our coverage of The Stars Like Dust ―, with chapters 15 through 22. That corresponds to part 3 of Tyrann as published in The March 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. "We the People… Do Ordain and Establish this Podcast." As we rejoin our heroes The USS Enterprise, trailer firmly attached by tractor beam, is approaching planet Omega 4. There they find th

Stars End S5E18 - The Podcast Was Located in a Little Niche Just Outside the Cabin

Nov 23 2024 59 mins

And now we settle in for the second part of the Good Doctor's second novel! Join us as we dust The Stars, Like Dust— with commentary like powdered sugar on a doughnut! Let's chat about chapters nine through fourteen! "The Podcast Was Located in a Little Niche Just Outside the Cabin" If this novel had been feeling a little non-Asenion for your tastes, this installment might be for

Stars End S5E17 - The Podcast Murmured to itself Gently

Sep 21 2024 60 mins

d novel! Join us for The Stars, Like Dust—! In this episode, we sift through chapters one through eight. The Stars, Like Dust is book #003 in the Asimov canon. That's a little misleading. Book #002 I, Robot is a fix-up; most of it had been written years before. This was the second time the Good Doctor sat down to write a book and he intended to write a Novel with a capital &q

Stars End S5E16 - Podcast Along With Me The Best is Yet to Be

Aug 26 2024 58 mins

We encounter the back cover of the Good Doctor's first actual book as we wrap up The Pebble in the Sky with chapters 14 through 22. If you've been around for a while you probably remember our discussions of the "Great Man Theory of History" vs the "Bottom-Up" paradigm. In other words, do remarkable individuals with unique characteristics write history o

Stars End S5E15 - There is Only One Reason Why a Synapsifier Can Possibly Be Used - To Improve a Podcast

Aug 19 2024 67 mins

Here's your chance to join the discussion about Pebble in the Sky, Chapters 7 through 13! Also, we'll open up the Stars End Mailbag and talk about Star Trek: Discovery! A lot of us who are past the point where we would be culled by the 60 take supplements to, theoretically, help improve our memory. Just the other day I couldn't remember the title of the Star Trek episo

Stars End S5E14 - Between One Podcast and the Next

Aug 13 2024 74 mins

We begin our conversation about Pebble in the Sky with Chapters 1 through 6. Isaac Asimov is famously prolific; if you know one thing about the Great and Glorious Az it might be that he wrote more than 500 books. Asimov-Reviews.net puts the number at 514 counting the Good Doctor's dissertation. Asimov.Fandom.com puts the number at a much more modest 506. Why is this relevant?

Stars End S5E13 - The Podcasts They Had

Aug 05 2024 61 mins

In which we talk about "Cal" and "The Fun They Had" with special guest Rachel from the Menuscript Podcast. "Cal" has been called "the last great Asimov short story" and it looks like it's his very last robot story. Cal is a robot who learns how to write ficton and over the course of the story becomes an odd sort of Asimov avatar. "

Stars End S5E12 - The Podcast Seems to be Crowded with Things I Dont Quite Understand

Jul 28 2024 77 mins

We finish our discussion of Foundation and Earth with Part VII: Earth. That includes chapters 19 — "Radioactive?" 20 — "The Nearby World," and 21 — "The Search Ends." I haven't bothered with spoiler alerts for a while. This time, though, if you haven't finished the novel and don't want to be spoilered, seriously, don't look even

Stars End S5E11 - We Have Old Men in these Parts Who Love to Podcast of Ancient Days

Jul 17 2024 61 mins

Here we go again! Let's talk about Foundation and Earth, Part VI: Alpha! If you like... complex calculations in a cross between archeology and astronavigation, agrarian societies that nonetheless have advanced weather control and bioengineering, and telekinetic performances on woodwind instruments then chapters 16, 17, and 18 are bananas! Also, Trevize gets lucky and is it j

Stars End S5E10 - Any Podcast Would Be in Serious Trouble if its Social Structure Broke Down Completely

Jul 07 2024 60 mins

We're back and we're diving back into Foundation and Earth! This time we're discussing chapters 13, 14, and 15 or, if you prefer, Part V: Melpomenia. This is all of Part V and nothing but Part V. In this section, we bid a not-so-fond farewell to Solaria as our little trio becomes a quartet with the addition of Fallom. We travel to the third and final Spacer world for w