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Foundation (Publication Order) Series

This epic saga spans millennia in the distant future as humanity has colonized the galaxy. It follows the fate of a disgraced scientist who foresees the inevitable fall of a galactic empire and establishes a foundation to preserve human knowledge. The series explores themes of history, sociology, and the impact of individuals on vast civilizational processes.

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Foundation and Earth
Foundation's Edge
Foundation Trilogy - 3: Second Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Foundation

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  1. Foundation

    • 240 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped science fiction as we know it today. The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate. Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy. However, the death throes of the Empire breed hostile new enemies, and the young Foundation's fate will be threatened first.

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  2. Foundation and Empire

    The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation? Filled with nail-biting suspense, nonstop action, and cutting-edge speculation, Foundation and Empire is the story of humanity’s perpetual struggle against the darkness that forever threatens to overwhelm the light—and of how the courage of even a determined few can make all the difference in the universe.

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  3. Foundation Trilogy - 3: Second Foundation

    Book Three of the Foundation Trilogy, Awarded the Hugo as Best Series Ever!

    • 258 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?

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  4. Foundation's Edge

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped science fiction as we know it today. After a long war which saw the First Foundation emerge victorious, the Second Foundation is now believed to be extinct, and all records of planet Earth's existence have been erased. No one suspects that the Second Foundation could still exist. None, except Council member Golan Trevize, who finds himself ordered to leave Terminus, accompanied by historian Janov Pelorat, in order to find it. Yet this quest will lead an unsuspecting Golan further than he could have possibly imagined - closer than ever to Earth, where the fate of the whole galaxy awaits him.

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  5. Foundation and Earth

    • 449 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped science fiction as we know it today. Faced with determining the fate of the galaxy, Golan Trevize hesitantly chose to hand over the rule of the galaxy to planet Gaia. Two mysteries now remain: who has erased the records of Earth - and why? Determined to ensure his choice was right, Golan sets off with Janov Pelorat and Bliss, to answer these questions once and for all. But nothing could prepare them for the secrets which await them on Earth. Secrets which predate history as they know it, and will change its significance forever...

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  6. Prelude to foundation

    • 493 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION 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.

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  7. Forward The Foundation!

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    For more than forty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his bestselling Foundation series, a spellbinding tale of the future that spans thousands of years and dozens of worlds.

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  • Die Psycho-Historiker. Die berühmte Foundation-Trilogie. Übertr. v. Barbara Heidkamp

    • 887 pages
    • 32 hours of reading

    EINE TAUSENDJÄHRIGE EPOS, EIN GALAKTISCHER KAMPF, EIN MONUMENTALES WERK IN DER GESCHICHTE DER SCIENCE-FICTION. Die Foundation beginnt ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte der Zukunft der Menschheit. Während das Alte Imperium in Barbarei zerfällt, müssen Hari Seldon und seine Gruppe von Psychologen eine neue Einheit, die Foundation, schaffen, die der Kunst, Wissenschaft und Technologie gewidmet ist, als Beginn eines neuen Imperiums. Die Foundation und das Imperium beschreibt den mächtigen Kampf um Macht im Chaos der Sterne, in dem die Menschheit am Rande eines neuen erleuchteten Lebens steht, das leicht von den alten Kräften der Barbarei zerstört werden könnte. Die zweite Foundation folgt dem Seldon-Plan nach der Niederlage des Ersten Imperiums und beschreibt seine größte Bedrohung - eine gefährliche mutierte Strömung, die außer Kontrolle geraten ist und einen Geist hervorbringt, der in der Lage ist, den Willen der Menschen zu biegen, ihre Gedanken zu lenken, ihre Wünsche umzuformen und das Universum zu zerstören.

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    • 472 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism. SECOND FOUNDATION follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.

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