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Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation: Introduction by Michael Dirda

by Isaac Asimov

Three novels chart the fate of a collapsing empire

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Awards & Recognition

  • Series recognition

    Foundation trilogy — Hugo Award winner for Best All-Time Series (1966)

    The Foundation trilogy received the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966. The recognition is for the seri...

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Three novels chart the fate of a collapsing empire

This volume brings together the three Foundation novels, tracing the decline of a Galactic Empire after twelve thousand years of rule and Hari Seldon’s effort to preserve human knowledge through the long period of upheaval he foresees. Seldon’s work as a psychohistorian gives the trilogy a framework for considering how individuals and collective knowledge might shape events across vast stretches of time. The hardcover edition includes an introduction by Michael Dirda, along with a select bibliography and a chronology of Isaac Asimov’s life and times.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in classic speculative fiction and large-scale visions of galactic history.
  • Readers who want the complete Foundation trilogy in one hardcover volume.
  • Readers interested in stories about preserving knowledge amid political and social upheaval.

Themes

The decline of empireKnowledge and its preservationPsychohistory and the futurePolitical and social upheaval

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Book overview

Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume - Winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series - THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION.

It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.

In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building."

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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