So I'm on this big sci-fi kick all of a sudden. Introduced to Firefly series, read Ender's game and now finishing up this "Foundation" novel by some guy named Asimov who I had vaguely heard of before. I was struck by similarities in "Foundation" with Star Wars. From big things like a galactic empire of billions of worlds existing for thousands of years to little things like the important world of Korellia. Story-wise they are quite different, of course, but I see how ideas can be borrowed or used as a guide.