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The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942–50, and subsequently in three books in 1951–53, for nearly thirty years the series was widely known as The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953).
[19] [20]: 23–24 The Seldon Plan is Seldon's great work intended to achieve this goal, a huge work of mathematics that describes the pattern of events set in motion by Seldon's intervention and those of his successors; a plan that centres on the Foundation, but is far from Seldon's ostensible goal of setting up a repository of knowledge.
In the first five books of the Foundation series, Hari Seldon made only one in-the-flesh appearance, in the first part of the first book , although he did appear at other times in pre-recorded messages to reveal a "Seldon Crisis". After writing five books in chronological order, Asimov retroactively added two books to expand on the genesis of ...
Raych Seldon is a street urchin in the slums of Billibotton whom Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili meet as they traverse Trantor in Prelude to Foundation. [10]: 214–215 [17] In Forward the Foundation, Seldon determines that populist Jo-Jo Joranum is scheming to replace Eto Demerzel as Cleon I's First Minister and then overthrow the emperor ...
Foundation is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published as a single book by Gnome Press in 1951. Collectively they tell the early story of the Foundation, an institute founded by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve the best of galactic civilization after the collapse of the Galactic Empire.
The Second Foundation was founded by Hari Seldon as a budding colony of psychologists and mentalics, people with telepathic abilities, located "at Star's End", an intentionally obscure term used by Seldon. In Forward the Foundation, the original Second Foundation is revealed to also include Hari's own granddaughter, Wanda Seldon, and his ...
Foundation (book series), a series of science fiction books by Isaac Asimov Foundation (Asimov novel) , the first book in Asimov's series, published in 1951 Foundation (b-boy book) , by Joseph G. Schloss
Below is a list of all the major and minor characters in the book, in order of appearance, with brief descriptions. Hari Seldon head of the Mathematics Department at Streeling University. Wanda, Hari's granddaughter; Eto Demerzel, First Minister to the Emperor. Yugo Amaryl a psychohistorian.