This daring story of humanity's future introduces one of the great masterworks of science
fiction: the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop
action bold ideas and extensive world-building they chronicle the struggle of a courageous
group of people to save civilization from a relentless tide of darkness and violence-beginning
with one exceptional man. It is the year 12 020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the
Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire forty
billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural
complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall-those whom he would destroy
if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on
psychohistory his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld
mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari
possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man
who holds the key to the future-an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the
Foundation.
