Prelude to Foundation
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
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Amazing sorry. Impeccably written & such prescient story telling….. A page turner from start to finish! This series is up there in the pantheon of story telling with the Dune novels & the Lord of the Rings (in the Fantasy genre)! Well worth the read(s)! Simply fantastic!
Amazing
One of the best sci fi i have read. I have only just begun! On to the next!
IA, innovative written
Published in 1941, IAs short story about a miniaturized submarine with people inside used a laser to break up a blood clot in a artery, after passing thur the heart, we call this technique bypass surgery these days!