Foundation's End - an Isaac Asimov "Foundation" fanfiction series

 ~ Fanfiction Alert ~

If you've been sticking around my blog for a while, you must know I am a big fan of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. I have discovered this series about 16 years ago, and fell in love with it. Time passed, and in the meanwhile I have discovered other fandoms and fell in love with them as well.

But, whatever I discover and love, the Foundation Series will always have a special place in my heart. Needless to say, after I finished reading the series for the first time, for a while I searched for it in every science fiction book I read. I never found the same fulfillment, but that is ok, because I learned not to look for a series in other books and to enjoy every book for what it is.

2025 was the year I reread the Foundation Series and loved it even more than the first time, because I saw it with new eyes and understood things which I didn't grasp the first time around. In a way, I could say 2025 is the year I fell in love with the Foundation Series for the second time.

2025 remains "marked" by the Foundation Series because rediscovering it reignited my inspiration to write fanfiction.

So I got to work and, throughout 2025 I finished the "Foundation's End" Series. "Foundation's End" is a fanfiction series made of two parts: "Somewhere Around Nothing" is my alternative to "Foundation and Empire" and "Not All That Glitters" is my alternative to "Second Foundation".

You can read it here:  

Foundation's End

What "Foundation's End" means: 

- a story where the Mule wins (Mule fans might enjoy reading this!);

- a love story;

- a fanfiction where I tried my very best for all characters to be in character, and not "lend" them characteristics which boost popularity but have nothing to do with the actual characters (I am not Goyer duh);

- no woke BS (if you are sick and tired of that in fanfiction, you have come to the right place);

In the hopes that "Foundation's End" makes your winter a bit better, happy holidays and see you next year maybe! 

P.S. There is a petition going around, asking the movie industry for an accurate, faithful adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series:

Petition

Petition: Asking the movie industry for an Isaac Asimov "Foundation" Series faithful adaptation

Before everything else, the change.org petition:

Petition for a faithful adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series 

If you look at my Deviantart gallery, you can see I have rediscovered my love for Isaac Asimov's works, especially for his Foundation Series.

As a Foundation fan, I googled information about a possible Foundation Series adaptation. And indeed, there is one. Between 2021 and 2025 Apple TV + created what they call a Foundation series adaptation.

Only, this is no adaptation, because: the main characters from the "adaptation" don't even exist in the books; half of the other "adaptation" characters don't exist in the books either; the action from the "adaptation" is completely different from the books' multiple plots; the characters from the "adaptation" which do actually have book equivalents are completely different from their book counterparts; the book themes have been dumbed down below sea level.

Basically, the only elements from the books which have been preserved in the Apple TV + "adaptation" are a few characters and location names.

That's it! That's all that the "adaptation" did for Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and for the book fans. And when I watch other book adaptations (Harry Potter, Dune, Divergent, Roadside Picnic, The Hunger Games, classic literature adaptations and so on), I honestly want to cry out. Why can't the Foundation Series fans have the same degree of professionalism?

This is why I have created a petition to the movie industry in general (not just Hollywood), to create a faithful adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.

I know chances are extremely scarce that the petition is successful. But still, the simple fact that this petition is signed and shared by as many people as possible, and is seen by someone in the film industry is a small victory!

Thank you very much for signing and / or sharing! We will not see a decent adaptation next year, that's for sure, as Apple TV +'s "adaptation" has already been renewed for season 4. But in 10 years, who knows?

Please don't be one of those people on the internet who say "but everyone knows the Foundation Series is unfilmable"! I clearly demonstrated that it is very filmable, and I am not even a film director:

How a Foundation Series adaptation could look like 

Thank you very much! 

Nothing like female jealousy

 Old hog’s jealousy

 

1.Keep away from those women so mean,

They never cease to say you are too thin;

As if turning into a whale

Would bring back their failed fairy tale.

 

2.Keep away from those women so mad,

They constantly persuade you to feel sad;

She did not call you to have fun,

But to feed on your inner sun.

 

3.Stay away child, she’s become a witch,

Poisonous, now that men are out of reach;

You have done nothing wrong, you see,

She is just numbed by jealousy.

Come and then go

 Stuck between a burger and a vodka II

 

1.They all come and go,

But no one stays too long

And that’s ok;

Replace sun with snow,

A poem with a song,

It’s just the way.

 

2.They all come and go,

No one can stand us much,

What can I say;

On the radio

And neither right, nor wrong,

News of the day.

 

3.They all come and go,

It’s time to hit the road,

Come on, who’s next?

Need help with packing, bro?

Your time will come again,

Do not feel vexed.

Keep looking

 Copycats

 

1.Copycats, copycats,

What can one do?

Acting out like

I’m a mirror to you?

But when I’m the fire,

You’re just a spark,

Go to bed kids,

It’s getting dark.

 

2.Copycats, copycats,

What can one say?

Only mumbling

When I look away?

But when you’re the fire,

I’m already ash,

Be a good kid,

Take out the trash.

 

3.Copycats, copycats,

They’re everywhere

And only talking

When I’m not there!

I’m in the future,

Ahead of your time,

If you want to copy

Sit down and rewind.

Résumé

 Exhaustion

 

1.A thousand strangers broke my heart

Since way back when,

A thousand times I stitched it back;

It bleeds again.

 

2.A thousand storms tore down my house,

Again it burnt,

Reached out for help and all looked down

And then I learned.

 

3.A thousand times I built a wall

And stayed inside,

But silly me, let someone in

And spoke my mind.

 

4.A thousand lives in thirty years,

Seen lots of stuff,

Yet everything I know so far

Is not enough.

Damage is done

 PTSD

 

1.Why do I cry towards the sky,

If I could, would I even try?

If I could reach out to my dreams

Would I drop all the heavy things?

 

2.And will I ever open up?

My lips are sealed, had too much stuff,

I want to see, the lights are shut,

Wish I could speak, my tongue is cut.

 

3.I hear it takes some time to heal,

Until your heart is made of steel,

Until your skin rejects each touch,

I think I may have healed too much.

 

4.Stop insisting, I can’t do it!

And it’s more comfortable to quit;

I’m still outnumbered by my fears,

Will spend my life counting down years.