Foundation
by Isaac Asimov ยท 1951
Asimov's genre-defining saga: as a galactic empire decays, a scientist uses "psychohistory" to shorten the coming dark age, founding a colony to preserve knowledge for a better future.
Book Series
Foundation
1 book, listed in publication order.
About This Series
Isaac Asimov's 1951 novel, assembled from stories published through the 1940s, and the origin of one of science fiction's most durable ideas: psychohistory, a mathematics of mass human behaviour that can forecast the fall of an empire but not the fate of any individual. It is structured as a sequence of crises across centuries, with the cast changing throughout, and its influence on later science fiction is difficult to overstate.
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