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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to 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 a fututre 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. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.

The first volume in isaac asimov's world-famous saga, winner of the hugo award for best all-time novel series. Long after earth was forgotten, a peaceful and unified galaxy took shape, an empire governed from the majestic city planet of trantor. The system worked, and grew, for countless generations. Everyone except hari seldon. As the great scientific thinker of his age, seldon could not be ignored. Reluctantly, the commission of public safety agreed to finance the seldon plan. The coming disaster was predicted by seldon's advances in psychohistory, the mathematics of very large human numbers, and it could not be averted. The empire was doomed. Soon trantor would lie in ruins. Chaos would overtake humanity. But the seldon plan was a long-term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come. Two foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy. Of the second nothing can be told. It guards the secrets of psychohistory. Foundation is the story of the first foundation, on the rem

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