Halfway through Foundation's Fear, I got the sinking feeling that I had read this book before. Characters, dialogue, even the setting was ringing my deja vu alarm. Finally, I realized: the entire middle section of the book (about Ipan, for those who read it already) was also published as a short story which made it into 1997's _The Year's Best Science Fiction_. Even though the book was good, most if it gave the same impression: it felt like a collection of Benford short stories bound up and renamed "Foundation." How else can one explain wormholes, Voltaire, tiktoks, and a dozen other elements that never should have been in a Foundation universe? For relief, read _Foundation and Chaos_ by Greg Bear, which tosses out Benford's deviations in the first few pages and gets back to the story we were hoping to read.