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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire had ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that would last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge... read more

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First Sentence

His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.

Table of Contents

Part I - The Phychohistorians
Part II - The Encyclopedists
Part III - The Mayors
Part IV - The Traders
Part V - The Merchant Princes

Series

This is book 1 in the Foundation series.

This is book 25 in the Foundation Universe series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Isaac Asimov (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Stephen Youll (Cover Artist) - Cover art copyright 1991 for Bantam edition published in 1991
 

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