Foundation Book Differences: All Major Changes The Show Makes

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation has been brought to life on the small screen — but there are many differences when comparing Apple TV+ Foundation show vs the book. Celebrated sci-fi author Asimov launched his iconic Foundation series of books and short stories in 1942. It had a profound influence on popular culture, blazing the trail for almost all science fiction that followed. And yet, for all that’s the case, filmmakers and showrunners struggled to bring Foundation to life. The vast period of time encompassed by Asimov’s tale, with its initially anthological structure and cerebral concepts, proved too great an obstacle until Apple TV+’s Foundation series, though it’s a lavish reinterpretation.