Reception
Reviewer Groff Conklin declared Foundation "a book of real intellectual entertainment and adventure." Boucher and McComas, however, found it "competent enough writing and thinking, if on the dull side.". P. Schuyler Miller received the volume favorably, but noted that the "revision and inter-writing" of the component stories was "not quite so successful a job" as Asimov had managed with I, Robot.
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