Why I turned to Isaac Asimov in the pandemic

Would you live in a world that is supremely comfortable, where robots do all the work and all disease has been eliminated? That’s the universe Issac Asimov imagines in The Naked Sun, a murder mystery set on a planet called Solaria. If you are sick of reading about disease in the news and hence not inclined to get an additional dose of it in fiction, try Asimov’s Foundation Series instead. A few farsighted individuals create two ‘foundations’ on distant planets, destined to restore humanity’s glory by slowly conquering the universe. In the Foundation Series, a mutant being called the ‘mule’ with the ability to read minds conquers planet after planet.