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Foundation Series
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent — Asimov's epic saga of civilizational collapse and renewal
- Genre
- Science Fiction, Space Opera
- Language
- English
- Dates
- January 1, 1951 – April 1, 1993
<p>Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is one of the most celebrated science fiction sagas ever created. Spanning 50,000 years of future history, the series centers on psychohistory — a mathematical science that can predict the broad strokes of history — and the Foundation's mission to shorten a coming dark age from 30,000 years to a single millennium.</p><ul><li><strong>Foundation (1951):</strong> Hari Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire and establishes the Foundation on Terminus.</li><li><strong>Foundation and Empire (1952):</strong> The Mule, an unpredicted mutant, conquers the Galaxy and upends psychohistorical predictions.</li><li><strong>Second Foundation (1953):</strong> The hidden Second Foundation of psychologists works to restore the Seldon Plan.</li><li><strong>Foundation's Edge (1982):</strong> Trevize and Pelorat search for Earth; the secret of Gaia is revealed.</li><li><strong>Foundation and Earth (1986):</strong> The quest for humanity's origin planet concludes.</li><li><strong>Prelude to Foundation (1988):</strong> Young Hari Seldon flees Imperial politics while developing psychohistory.</li><li><strong>Forward the Foundation (1993):</strong> Seldon's final decades; the Foundation is established against the backdrop of Imperial collapse.</li></ul>
