I'm not crying! You're crying! 😭

What an end. What. An. End.
God this book was amazing, it never stopped being gripping, it was thrilling from the very beginning until the end.
This was one of the best of Asimov.

This felt like a true space adventure story, it felt like Indiana Jones or something, but in space, not necessarily the tone of Indy, but the feeling of exploration.
Again Asimov perfectly utilised Trevise and Pelorat as narrative pieces and the gateway to world building, having one teach us about spaceflight and planetology and the other about history and mythology, and both efforts are VITAL in this incredible feeling of exploration.

Because they were in search of Earth, and all records on it have been removed from all civilisations, that meant we need Pel's experience and keen insight to paint the picture for us and help piece together all that has happened between the Robots series and Foundation.

And then, equally important, we needed Trev's experience and knowledge to make us really feel like they were searching for Earth, going as far as analysing the make-up of each planet, it's position in the solar system, it's size and other factors to determine if it could support life.
Fuck-ing awe-some.

And then we had Bliss accompanying the boys this time, and her character was a bit hit and miss for me. When Trev is around and they are having philosophical dialogues and debating morality, it's incredible. When Trev is not around, she's one-dimensional and is there to be the moral authority.

Another character that became a regular on the ship is

Fallom. This was a character I thought was more than what met the eye, but I was wrong. I genuinely thought the child was the true villain and was under the guise of a child and had maneuvered that whole fiasco on Solarian so the gang would take her with them. Given Trevs instinctual hostility towards her, I was genuinely convinced it was another one of Trev's "tingles" where he was right but had no idea how or why he was. Alas, she was no villain and was exactly ash she appeared to be, and I feel like that entire aspect of the book was so manufactured to add a level of What If to the journey and I must say it felt cheap. While it was fun to revisit Solaria again and delve deeper into their unusual way of life they cultivated in his Robots series and how they had evolved over the 20,000 years, I do think Asimov focused on it way too much and added unnecessary complexities. It wasted the readers time, basically.

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The ending was outstanding, the reveal of

Daneel Olivaw

literally made me cry.

His entire story arch in the Robots series was so emotional and beautiful, and seeing how after 20,000 years he still held Elijah Baley in his heart and mind and still fought for the safety and betterment of humanity was extremely touching and beautiful.
...thennnnn it sorta got a bit tainted with the solution to bringing about Galaxia was they he had to essentially kill the child Fallom and merge their brains so he can stay functioning for another few centuries to shephard Galaxia into being. Daneel legit has to kill/merge with a human child. For fuck sake, that's really the solution? It didn't make much sense to me and was such a let down.

I really thought when they finally reached their destination, that the man they'd see standing waiting for them would have been

Hari Seldon.

Then I thought Daneel was actually Hari Seldon and he played that role to help start psychohistory, the Seldon plan and the foundations. I was partially correct, it wasn't Seldon, but Daneel did bring about Psychohistory.

Got I felt so intellectually stimulated majority of the time reading this book and was fascinated and felt immersed in the discovery processes.

However, I do have some criticisms! 
ASIMOV. STOP. STOP ADDING UNNECESSARY ROMANCES (yes I'm aware he's dead) AND JESUS CHRIST MATE STOP WITH THE WHOLE WOMAN MEETS GUY AND WANTS TO FUCK HIM IMMEDIATELY STUFF! I'm not even kidding! TWICE! TWICE I THE SAME BOOK! Trevise met two women on this book and both of them in the first few minutes had sex with him. Later it gets excused as

Daneel

influencing their already present attraction to Trevise so they would aid him in his journey.
Bullshit.
Also, Bliss and Trevise literally had the same debates and arguments OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. That's insane. Definitely contributed to the feeling that this book was way longer than it needed to be.

While I loved the connecting of Robots and Foundation, I do feel like Asimov almost abandoned the Foundation factions and Hari Seldon and his plan. This felt like he was merging Robots and Foundation together and was sacrificing parts that made these books Foundation books and made it more like a Robots book. I don't like how the book just ends with too many loose ends and us knowing it is essentially the last book and the end of the road. The other two books are prequels and I'd assume don't reveal what happens after Foundation and Earth.
And when I say this book just ends, I really mens it literally. It just ends during a conversation at the end, with an ominous sentence, and we'll never know anything more.
Fuck you Asimov, you beautiful evil bastard.

There was one theory I had that has not been confirmed or denied in this book!
Golan Trevise, is descended from Elijah Baley.
I am convinced, 100%, this is the case.
I remembered back to the Robots series that Baley had this verrrrryy uncanny knack for jumping to the right conclusions seemingly out of nowhere and his brain was like a supercomputer of sorts except he acted like a detective columbo and he also had some anger issues at times. Similarly enough with Trevise! Except he's mostly just grumpy 😂
I am convinced! And because I believe this to be true, it made the reveal at the end so much more emotional 😭

Now I'm onto Prelude to Foundation.
Oh also a tip for anyone wanting to read all the books in order, for his Galactic Empire series, despite The Stars, Like Dust coming out a year before The Currents of Space and it being listed as book 1 and 2, they are actually the other way around in chronological order! The Currents of Space actually is set before The Stars, Like Dust.
So if anyone reading this is planning reading all his Robots, Galactic Empire and Foundation books in chronological order, now you know 😉