false 29579 48 <I>Foundation</I> marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (<I>Foundation</I>, <I>Foundation and Empire</I>, <I>Second Foundation</I>) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It's science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field. <I>--Brooks Peck</I> 1783981 book 1951 Foundation total:21756|5:617|4:503|3:380|2:138|1:138| 21756 84570 31541 605 5 5 false false Tue Jan 15 13:11:08 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 11:15:58 -0800 2008
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Totally inconsequential but this book and the previous one that I read, The Driver's Seat, both make mention in their opening pages of unstainable fabrics.

In Driver's Seat it gives us the first sign that Lise is a bit odd. In Fo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 14:52:40 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 14:56:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jul 25 13:26:26 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 13:26:26 -0700 2008 It fully deserves its place. Although none of the stories in themselves are out-and-out classics, the cumula...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 03 08:51:49 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:05:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 03:50:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 03:58:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 04 07:33:28 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 07:33:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Aug 22 18:43:05 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 18:50:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 13:50:12 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:01:23 -0700 2009
In Foundation, psychohistorian Hari Seldon has used advanced mathematics to predict the fall of the Galactic Empire and has set ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:49:27 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 15:00:42 -0700 2009
In this far-future science fiction, Asimov posits the notion of history as a battle between galaxy-wide social and economic forces, rather than attributable to individual action. The science of psycho-...more...]]>