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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345336275
ISBN-139780345336279
eBay Product ID (ePID)1300216
Product Key Features
Book TitleFoundation
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
TopicScience Fiction / General
GenreFiction
AuthorIsaac Asimov
Book SeriesFoundation Ser.
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Weight5.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-176859
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberBk. 1
Volume NumberNo. 1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFor use in schools and libraries only. The first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy., 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.