Foundation
A landmark science fiction saga, Foundation begins with mathematician Hari Seldon, who predicts the fall of a galactic empire using psychohistory. To preserve knowledge and shorten the dark age to follow, he establishes the Foundation. Spanning centuries and multiple protagonists, the series explores politics, philosophy, and the tension between determinism and free will. Asimov’s visionary universe laid the groundwork for generations of sci-fi and remains an intellectual epic of civilization’s rise and fall.
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 that shaped science fiction as we know it today. The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate. Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy. However, the death throes of the Empire breed hostile new enemies, and the young Foundation’s fate will be threatened first.