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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy - a riveting saga of humanity's struggle against darkness played out on the grandest scale - is one of the cornerstones of modern science fiction. It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store. Foundation -- Foundation and empire -- Second foundation....
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Series
Galactic empires trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An oppressed laborer on the planet of Florina, Rik resigns himself to a life of hard work and the poor regard of people who believe him to be mentally impaired before he begins to recover memories of an imminent disaster.
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 4
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire, still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 5
Pub. Date
2008, 1953.
Language
English
Description
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time but now he is certain he knows where it lies. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years...
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Series
Foundation series volume 7
Pub. Date
2004, c1986
Language
English
Description
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 6
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in...
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