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Foundation Series
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent — Asimov's epic saga of civilizational collapse and renewal
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Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series (1966)
About
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is one of the most celebrated science fiction sagas ever created. Spanning 50,000 years of future history, the series centers on psychohistory — a mathematical science that can predict the broad strokes of history — and the Foundation's mission to shorten a coming dark age from 30,000 years to a single millennium.
- Foundation (1951): Hari Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire and establishes the Foundation on Terminus.
- Foundation and Empire (1952): The Mule, an unpredicted mutant, conquers the Galaxy and upends psychohistorical predictions.
- Second Foundation (1953): The hidden Second Foundation of psychologists works to restore the Seldon Plan.
- Foundation's Edge (1982): Trevize and Pelorat search for Earth; the secret of Gaia is revealed.
- Foundation and Earth (1986): The quest for humanity's origin planet concludes.
- Prelude to Foundation (1988): Young Hari Seldon flees Imperial politics while developing psychohistory.
- Forward the Foundation (1993): Seldon's final decades; the Foundation is established against the backdrop of Imperial collapse.
