The Foundation Trilogy (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: A period of some four centuries, many thousands of years in the future
- Setting: Many planets, including Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire, and Terminus, site of the Foundation
- Principal Characters: Hari Seldon, Salvor Hardin, Hober Mallow, Bel Riose, The Mule, Arcadia Darrell, Preem Palver
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: History, Values, Power, personal or social, Politics, Nature, Psychology or psychologists, Leadership, Future, Other worlds, Science or scientists, Space flight or travel, War, Historians, Truth, Science fiction, Adventure, Utopias, Information science or systems, Mathematics or mathematicians, Predestination, Robots or robotics, Technology
- Locales: Space, Kalgan, Terminus (fictive), Trantor (fictive)
The Novels
Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy is a work designed on an astonishing scale. The actions it describes cover more than four centuries and many solar systems. This, however, is only a fraction of the much larger perspective behind the story, for the sequence opens with a view of a Galactic Empire including more than twenty-five million inhabited planets; that Empire is furthermore the result of an expansion into space so long-drawn-out that even the memory of Earth itself has vanished. All one can say is that the Foundation era begins more than twelve...
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