num_pages: 624
description: A saga of enormous scope and boundless imagination, Isaac Asimov’s Hugo-winning Foundation Trilogy is one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Set 50,000 years in the future, it tells of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire and the history of a universal ruling organization created to reduce the duration of the coming Dark Age.Foundation introduces mathematician Hari Seldon, whose science of psychohistory can predict the future on a colossal scale. But what Hari foresees is an empire’s collapse and an age of barbarism lasting 30,000 years. Gathering the finest minds in the galaxy, he devises a Plan to preserve the collective knowledge of the human race...only to find that the Foundation itself is under seige.In Foundation and Empire, the Foundation has attained power, but can it prevail against an ambitious young general determined to restore the Empire to its former glory, or a mutant intelligence whose mysterious power to bend minds to his will not even Hari Seldon could have predicted?In Second Foundation, the mutant sets out to find the last threat to his power: a secretly evolved Second Foundation, whose colony of telepaths the First Foundation also wants destroyed.
language: English
title: The Foundation Trilogy
titlecomplete: The Foundation Trilogy
characters: Hari Seldon, Mule, Salvor Hardin, Arkady Darell, Hober Mallow
genres: Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 101099
series: Foundation (Chronological Order), Foundation (Publication Order)
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best All-Time Series
publisher: Bantam / Doubleday