The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for h...

Isaac Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy" is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern SF, and the sheer sweep of his "future history" shaped many if...

Amazon.com ReviewFoundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is...

From Publishers WeeklyFor anyone who's ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando's (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the danger...

From Publishers WeeklyIf a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel--also an intellectual blockbu...

ReviewI long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I wa...

Forty Signs of Rain

SUMMARY:Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where "Madragi" -- huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fat...

Fortune's Fool

From Publishers WeeklyAdler follows up Peach and The Rich Shall Inherit with another glitzy roller-coaster saga. Using standard rags-to-riches ingredients, she gives us a trio of Cinderell...