Isaac Roberts, the Great Nebula in Andromeda, 1899. via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Everyman's Library
Foundation
An empire falls; a foundation is built to shorten the dark age.
$30.00
Available · worldwide delivery
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Published
- January 2010
- Pages
- 0
- Format
- Hardcover
- Size
- Standard
- Language
- English
The Library Essay
The Fall Was in the Numbers
Isaac Asimov began the Foundation stories in 1942 for Astounding Science Fiction, borrowing his premise, by his own account, from Gibbon's Decline and Fall: a galactic empire is dying, and the mathematician Hari Seldon, whose science of psychohistory can read the statistics of the future, plants a foundation at the galaxy's edge to shorten the coming dark age from thirty thousand years to one thousand.
The stories were gathered into a trilogy in the early 1950s, and in 1966 the World Science Fiction Convention voted it the best series the field had produced. Everyman's Library brought the trilogy into its collection in 2010, cloth-bound among the classics, which is roughly where readers of science fiction had always shelved it.
In the Collections
