After the Mule's death, the original Foundation needs the Second Foundation's help in getting the Selden plan back on track. The Mule attempts to track down the Second Foundation. In Second Foundation, the Mule has conquered the original Foundation and much of the galaxy, but the secretive Second Foundation-oriented to mental science where the first Foundation is oriented to physical sciences-lurks out there and is interfering with the Mule's plans for a new empire. The great Hari Selden has mathematically proven that the Empire will soon fall and a 30-millennium Dark Age will follow, but Selden's Foundation can shorten that time by a factor of 30.
They too want the Second Foundation destroyed, before it destroys them.Īsimov's Foundation series, based on the ideas from the "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire," starts with a 12,000 year-old Galactic Empire. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only 14 years old and burdened with a terrible secret. The Mule failed to find it the first timebut now he is certain he knows where it lies. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.Īfter years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins, destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. Finding it will lead the Foundation to the opposite end of the Galaxy, where the fate of Seldon's two Foundations awaits.Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. However, the location of the Second Foundation remains shrouded in mystery. Surviving members of the First Foundation also fear the secret powers of the Second Foundation, vowing to find and destroy it. But whispers of the mysterious Second Foundation, the only hope of defeating the Mule, are beginning to spread.
The First Foundation has been defeated, crushed by the formidable mental powers of the Mule. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.
The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES
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