Other editions of book Second Foundation

The Mule is coming closer to finding the Second Foundation. However, each time, it slips out of reach. Now, the Second Foundation has come out of hiding to directly face the threat. Its members are some of the brightest and most intelligent humans in the galaxy: the descendants of Seldon's psychohistorians. The Second Foundation has been researching into the mental sciences. It uses its strongest members to manipulate the Mule into becoming a benevolent leader, erasing his destructive attitude forever. The Second Foundation has won this battle, but the First is on its tail, primed to attack. But before they can annihilate it, they need to find it. That's easier said than done, for Hari Seldon tells them that they will find it "at Star's End". Even if they find it, the Second Foundation is ready for attack.

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series 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 whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today. The First Foundation has been defeated, crushed by the formidable mental powers of the Mule. But whispers of the mysterious Second Foundation, the only hope of defeating the Mule, are beginning to spread.... Surviving members of the First Foundation also fear the secret powers of the Second Foundation, vowing to find and destroy it. However, the location of the Second Foundation remains shrouded in mystery. Finding it will lead the Foundation to the opposite end of the Galaxy, where the fate of Seldon's two Foundations awaits.