Foundation Series
by Isaac Asimov
read: circa 1996
Guardian 1000 Novels, Hugo Award
When I was a freshman in high school, I had to read an autobiography and deliver an oral presentation in character as the person in question. I chose Isaac Asimov, although I had never read any of his novels. My introduction to his fiction came via Foundation, and I wound up reading the entire saga, at least the seven books Asimov wrote.
There's a lot of dystopian fiction about the horrors of the destruction of individual identity (Brave New World and 1984 are two examples), but the Foundation series ultimately makes an argument for the collective mind over the individual.
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