Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

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Description

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES


The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.


Long after Earth was forgotten, a peaceful and unified galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the majestic city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for countless generations. Everyone believed it would work forever. Everyone except Hari Seldon. As the great scienctific thinker of his age Seldon could not be ignored. Reluctantly, the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan.The coming disaster was predicted by Seldon's advances in psychohistory, the mathematics of very large human numbers, and it could not be averted. The Empire was doomed. Soon Trantor would lie in ruins. Chaos would overtake humanity. But the Seldon Plan was a long term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come. Two Foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy. Of the Second nothing can be told. It guards the secrets of psychohisotry.


FOUNDATION is the story of the First Foundation, on the remote planet of Terminus, from which those secrets were withheld.

Reviews

'One of the most staggering achievements in modern SF' The Times


Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga epitomises the optimistic aspirations of science fiction. The Galactic Empire is in decline and one man dreams of 1,000 years of change instead of a 30,000-years dark age. Each book explores various bottlenecks on this journey and what happens when the "Seldon Plan" goes horribly, unforeseeably, off-course. --- Adam (staff)

Author description

Isaac Asimov was born in Russia in 1920 and grew up in the USA. His fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearence of a short story 'Marooned Off Vesta', in Amazing Stories. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. With nearly five hundred books to his name and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. He died in 1992 at the age of 72.