Foundation (Foundation, #1)

by Isaac Asimov

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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 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.

  • ISBN10 0246118318
  • ISBN13 9780246118318
  • Publish Date 28 April 1983 (first published 1 January 1963)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 August 1991
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Grafton
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English