Tumayi Mak

Foundation Series - 1942 Star Wars - 1966 Star Trek - 19777 Isaac Asimov's vision of the Galaxy strikes at the very heart of human behavior, psychology our natural penchant for violence and fear of death and the uncertainty of the afterlife. This premise from the 40's, during the very heart of one of the World's most brutal conficts, WW2, shows just how way ahead Asimov was amongst his contemporaries. This is a true complete space opera. “Psychohistory dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again.” —Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

Slow burn starts aren't very popular these days but the ambient True Blood and Walking Dead feel is pretty much a good starting point for any King work.