Foundation - Foundation Novels

Isaac Asimov

Kindle

2004

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-1: 0

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 mankind’s 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.

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Foundation is a classic science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that tells the story of the Foundation’s efforts to steer humanity through times of crisis. The book is unique in its genre as it’s a historical exercise done in reverse, where Asimov tries to predict the fall of the Galactic Empire based on a historical vision of the Roman Empire and other large and powerful forms of government that fell in the real world.