The Bactra Review Thought
Contagion
They're not the same. Among other things, psychohistory was a bit of fictional
science Asimov waved his hands about, and was smart enough to know was
impossible. In an age when Prime Minister Gingrich, unable to distinguish
between speculative fiction and political thought, recommends the
Foundation books to his associates as models of how to think about
``civilizations,'' this sort of warning seems necessary. (And I grew up on the
first three novels.)