THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY

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who wrote the foundation trilogy

Isaac Asimov

Book Description:

The Foundation Series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. The series is best known for the Foundation Trilogy, which comprises the books Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. In 1965, the Foundation Trilogy beat several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien) to receive a special Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series.” It is still the only series so honored. Asimov himself wrote that he assumed the one-time award had been created to honor The Lord of the Rings, and he was amazed when his work won. A saga of enormous scope and boundless imagination, Isaac Asimov’s Hugo-winning Foundation Trilogy is one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Set 50,000 years in the future, it tells of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire and the history of a universal ruling organization created to reduce the duration of the coming Dark Age. Foundation introduces mathematician Hari Seldon, whose science of psychohistory can predict the future on a colossal scale. But what Hari foresees is an empire’s collapse and an age of barbarism lasting 30,000 years. Gathering the finest minds in the galaxy, he devises a Plan to preserve the collective knowledge of the human race…only to find that the Foundation itself is under seige. In Foundation and Empire, the Foundation has attained power, but can it prevail against an ambitious young general determined to restore the Empire to its former glory, or a mutant intelligence whose mysterious power to bend minds to his will not even Hari Seldon could have predicted?In Second Foundation, the mutant sets out to find the last threat to his power: a secretly evolved Second Foundation, whose colony of telepaths the First Foundation also wants destroyed.

Table of contents :

Book 1 Foundation……Page 1
THE STORY BEHIND THE “FOUNDATION”……Page 2
Part I The Psychohistorians……Page 8
Part II The Encyclopedists……Page 32
Part III The Mayors……Page 58
Part IV The Traders……Page 95
Part V The Merchant Princes……Page 110
Contents……Page 161
PROLOGUE……Page 163
1. SEARCH FOR MAGICIANS……Page 164
2. THE MAGICIANS……Page 171
3. THE DEAD HAND……Page 174
4. THE EMPEROR……Page 178
5. THE WAR BEGINS……Page 183
6. THE FAVORITE……Page 191
7. BRIBERY……Page 194
8. TO TRANTOR……Page 204
9. ON TRANTOR……Page 210
10. THE WAR ENDS……Page 215
11. BRIDE AND GROOM……Page 218
12. CAPTAIN AND MAYOR……Page 226
13. LIEUTENANT AND CLOWN……Page 232
14. THE MUTANT……Page 238
15. THE PSYCHOLOGIST……Page 245
16. CONFERENCE……Page 250
17. THE VISI-SONOR……Page 256
18. FALL OF THE FOUNDATION……Page 263
19. START OF THE SEARCH……Page 268
20. CONSPIRATOR……Page 276
21. INTERLUDE IN SPACE……Page 283
22. DEATH ON NEOTRANTOR……Page 291
23. THE RUINS OF TRANTOR……Page 300
24. CONVERT……Page 303
25. DEATH OF A PSYCHOLOGIST……Page 308
26. END OF THE SEARCH……Page 317
Contents……Page 325
PROLOGUE……Page 326
1. TWO MEN AND THE MULE……Page 327
2. TWO MEN WITHOUT THE MULE……Page 338
3. TWO MEN AND A PEASANT……Page 347
4. TWO MEN AND THE ELDERS……Page 353
5. ONE MAN AND THE MULE……Page 361
6. ONE MAN, THE MULE – AND ANOTHER……Page 369
7. ARCADIA……Page 379
8. SELDON’S PLAN……Page 388
9. THE CONSPIRATORS……Page 396
10. APPROACHING CRISIS……Page 404
11. STOWAWAY……Page 406
12. LORD……Page 413
13. LADY……Page 417
14. ANXIETY……Page 422
15. THROUGH THE GRID……Page 430
16. BEGINNING OF WAR……Page 439
17. WAR……Page 446
18. GHOST OF A WORLD……Page 449
19. END OF WAR……Page 454
20. “I KNOW …”……Page 461
21. THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED……Page 470
22. THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE……Page 477

The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation

Author(s): Isaac Asimov

Publisher: Doubleday, Year: 1982

ISBN: 0385188307

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