The following text might slightly be a spoiler. All the facts should become clear in about 10 pages, but if you want everything to be a surprise don't read on.Otherwise, read on: This book is THE BOOK FOR ME. For one thing, I like mathematics, and thus even the presence of a mathematician pleases me. In the book Foundation, it even talks about transformations. (To be honest, these days I kept thinking about how psychohistory can actually be real, but thanks to Quantum Mechanics it might never be... until maybe we can find a new law?) I was actually infuriated by the fact that there were not many mathematicians and such. The next part are total spoilers. Do not advance unless you have already read the book or want to willingly spoil the story.First of all, the entire story was very science-fiction-al. It was very scientific due to all the history and mathematics that were thrown into it, and most of all the robot part caught me by surprise. And yet it was also quite fictional (at least, according to current standards): For one thing, it's impossible to have such many planets in the same galaxy, as they must fit into the Goldilocks Zone. For another, it's impossible to tell the future absolutely, due to first the Butterfly Phenomenon and also the unmeasurability of Quantum Mechanics. Finally, even if you can calculate the possibilities, it would look like this: 0.1% you'll end up here, 0.1% you'll end up there, et cetera. Second, the story was very dramatic. I never expected Chetter Hummin to be Eto Demerzel and Robot Daneel Olivaw at the same time. The former was seemingly contradictory and the second was... stupid to me, maybe because I was stupid, but mainly because I haven't read the Robot series. The whole Robot thing was... messy and I think the author should include some excerpts from the Robotic series. Overall, this is a very good novel that deserves a rating of 5 stars.
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