The Foundation Trilogy

by Isaac Asimov · 1950

The Foundation Trilogy is a thousand‑year epic that follows the rise and fall of a galactic empire. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism across a million worlds, mathematician Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists devise psychohistory and create the Foundation—a repository of art, science, and technology—to preserve humanity’s light and usher in a new civilization. The three novels—Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation—chronicle the struggle for power, the implementation of the Seldon Plan, and the battle against a mutant mind that can bend wills and reshape destiny. The collection, celebrated with a Hugo Award in 1966, is hailed as a masterwork of science‑fiction world‑building and political intrigue.