The Hugo Awards voted Foundation as the field’s Best All-Time Series in 1966, and no Worldcon has dared to revisit the verdict since. Goyer-the mastermind behind Apple’s extravagant TV adaptation, which wraps up its first season today-declared Foundation “the greatest science-fiction work ever written,” he was not indulging in prerelease hyperbole so much as reciting the official record. Certainly nothing from the academy can approach its popular influence.
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is perhaps the definitive expression of mid-century American liberalism. This article contains spoilers through the first season of Foundation.
