Foundation
By: Isaac Asimov.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Life on other planets -- Fiction; Psychohistory -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind₂s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.
Table of contents: title: The psychohistorians; title: The encyclopedists; title: The mayors; title: The traders; title: The merchant princes.